Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles

“At once scholarly homage to the Iliad and a startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new writer… A book I couldn’t put down.”
— Ann Patchett
"Mary Renault is alive again!" says Emma Donoghue, author of The Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller's gripping, deeply moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal glory and the human heart, the Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring masterpiece, the Iliad. An action-packed adventure novel, an epic love story, a wonderfully conceived and executed page-turning romance, Miller's monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from the brightest luminaries of modern fiction—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Stephen Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. will give you an unforgettable journey to ancient Greece in the era of heroes.