{"product_id":"son-of-nobody-hardback","title":"Son of Nobody (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE READS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2026 -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2026 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWHAT TO READ IN 2026 -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2026 - BBC Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE MOST HYPED BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN 2026\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eElle Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe past is never done with: always the song continues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Psoad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea but known to all as 'son of nobody'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its modern footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the three-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition and grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterpiece of myth and history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSon of Nobody\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them and how we live - then, now and always.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yann Martel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61646930248010,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1037\/5256\/5066\/files\/81rh-uC8iOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776514160","url":"https:\/\/mavisbookshop.com\/products\/son-of-nobody-hardback","provider":"Mavis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}