![]() Footnote: The poem takes its name from the Greek. ![]() "Fiction, in Malouf's hands, becomes the art of rendering the world coherent. Adaptation: Derek Jacobi's audiobook of the Fagles translation is magnificent. ![]() "The sheer potency of this slim volume can hijack your senses and emotions." - The Courier-Mail "This book shines new light on this story of the Trojan War, adding twists and reflections as well as flashes of earthly humour." - Brisbane News Malouf's prose is delicate, marvellously alert to the natural world and endowed with a quality that has one name only: wisdom." - Sydney Morning Herald " Ransom is a tour de force, incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and in its unstated imperative to imagine our lives in light of fellow feeling. Ransom, the Australian David Malouf’s transformative novelization of this moving encounter between the two men, exploits two lesser-known myths neither of them part of the Iliad to. Malouf's masterly return to the novel ably stands with recent versions of Homeric themes such as Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy and Christopher Logue's War Music." - Library Journal We assumed a speed of 300 WPM for this calculation. ![]() Though Malouf's sparingly deployed details, vigorous language and sly wit humanizes these tragic heroes, the story is unmistakably epic and certainly the stuff of legend." - Publishers Weekly Ransom By David Malouf The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 2 hours and 29 minutes to read Ransom by David Malouf. ![]()
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