Author:Zachary Mason
In the tradition of Zachary Mason’s bestselling first novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey – where he recast episodes from Homer’s masterpiece – Metamorphica now reimagines Ovid’s epic poem of endless transformation, Metamorphoses. Just as the Roman poet reinvigorated the Greek Classical legends 700 years after Homer, so Mason now gives us a radical and exciting renovation of those myths, 2,000 years after Ovid.
It retells the great stories of Narcissus, Orpheus, Persephone, Icarus, Midas, Medea and Actaeon, and strings them together like the stars in constellations – with even Ovid himself entering the narrative. It’s as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino – or artificial intelligence – and brought glimmering back into our world. Metamorphica re-engages with the elemental power of the ancient shape-changing gods by keeping their essences while rewriting their stories. It is this extraordinary narrative approach that is so thrilling; we watch as the author extracts more and more out of the original legend – adding infinite perspectives to narratives we thought we knew. Mason understands that the great myths are parables – always in flux, always relevant – always throwing shards of light from the morning of the world.
A glorious compendium of classical mythology stretching from the creation of the universe to the Emperor Augustus.
—— Emma Park , SpectatorZachary Mason in Metamorphica has done away with traditional modes entirely... well-wrought, with some powerful writing... Even knowing the myth's grisly end does not diminish the impact of the retelling.
—— Frank Brinkley , Literary ReviewMason adds new perspectives to the mythical stories we thought we knew.
—— iNewsZachary Mason’s new retellings are playful and daring… with…Mason’s intriguing Calvino-esque storytelling, this is a constellation of stories that should star on your bookshelf.
—— Jennie Bailey , StarburstDefinitely recommended for fans and people who want more depth in the story
—— Star Wars Awakens‘Solo is easily one of my favorite Star Wars books of the year, and one of my favorite Star Wars movie novelizations period. Making a novelization exciting is always a tricky business because authors need to keep readers engaged with a story where they already know what’s coming. Solo pulls this off by adding just the right amount of extra detail to keep each scene fresh and interesting without veering too far from the original movie and turning this into a completely new story. I’d recommend picking up Solo: A Star Wars Story whether or not you enjoyed the movie earlier this year, because I think it will make you love it more either way.’
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—— Daily TelegraphAn impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history
—— IndependentGiving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today
—— Woman and HomeThe most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century
—— Edith HallThe magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant today
—— Grazia[Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of war...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's founding conflicts
—— The Guardian
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