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All tagged Greek mythology
When a Ficus carica, commonly known as the edible fig, takes up a narrative voice in a novel, readers should know they are in for something unique. In the case of The Island of the Missing Trees (2021) by Elif Shafak, the tree narrator, the multiple storylines and settings (contemporary London and twentieth-century Cypress), and the beautiful prose all work to utterly transport the reader.
Margaret Atwood’s Dearly: New Poems (2020) is a lovely collection that reflects themes of aging and loss as well as the mythology, the classics, and magical creatures.
Told from the first-person perspective of young Patroclus, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2012) reanimates the classical story of famous Achilles for today’s reader.
This is a beautiful re-weaving of Circe’s stories, in which Miller expertly adorns the many classical tales with plenty of her own invention.
