The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, 2011
The Iliad retold by the man who loved Achilles: a boyhood friendship that becomes the centre of the Trojan War.
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller writes in a register that is plain and luminous at once, and her two novels share a quality you might call warmth at a distance: gods and heroes are near enough to touch, yet the old stories keep their weight. Start with «The Song of Achilles» if you want the Trojan War from inside a friendship, or «Circe» if the figure of the witch in exile, and what it costs her to care for mortals, sounds closer to your mood.
Feels like longing, love and identity.
Start with The Song of Achilles.
Madeline Miller taught Latin and Greek for ten years; The Song of Achilles won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.
To know someone so well that sight becomes optional.
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. Books by Madeline Miller
Circe
Madeline Miller, 2018
The witch of the Odyssey tells her own story: exile, transformation, and the dangerous bargain of loving mortals.
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