Song of Achilles

2012 Orange Best Novel Award Winner

The gods banished me from my home at a young age, I could not object; I was a weak, clumsy, weak child. I couldn't find anything to say, I was just a mortal. I only knew what it was like to be alone and defeated. And how someone else's good fortune pricks like a thorn when you are defeated like this.

But my pattern of fate was not over yet. My exile, Aristos, had gone out to kneel before Achaion, under the sun of his beauty. I was defeated, but who would be ashamed of being defeated in the face of such beauty? In our stories, he is the best of us, the most heroic, the strongest. According to our stories, the reason for this is the divine blood flowing in his veins. Our stories are told by old people around the fire, they talk about heroes, but heroes never grow old.

In our stories, it is told that the brave Achaeans won the war...

Our stories do not tell the truth. There is no winner in war. Ages pass, constellations circle above us, the moon and the sun follow their usual paths exhausted, and we, those who have suffered disaster, we who have been separated from our loved ones, lie restless where we fell, with the song of love that makes us tremble in our ears.

Madeline Miller, author of I, Circe, in the Song of Achilles, describes the demigod Achilles, who gave up his life for his glory, his companion Patroklos and the Trojan War; It tells the epic of kings, gods and warriors through the eyes of two lovers.

“Madeline Miller manages to convince us that these two young men exist in reality, not in legends, by conveying their striking and passionate love in a language as simple and subtle as Homer's gripping verse epic. In this way, their names are passed on to the next generation, enriching this story that has been told for 3000 years.”

-Mary Doria Russell, author of Sparrow-

“A gripping retelling of the Iliad and its predecessors through the eyes of Patroklos; It is a book that is hard to put down, and those who love classical works will be especially fascinated by the wild side and antiquity essence of the character of Goddess Thetis.

-Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch-

“The Song of Achilles reveals the Iliad epic in a more realistic historical and fantastic narrative than you have ever read before...”

-Instinct Magazine-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 376

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish