Ben Circe

Best Book of the Year according to NPR, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle and Newsweek

Best Fantasy Book of 2018, according to Goodreads readers

“This remarkable story will grip you like a spell cast by Circe.”

- Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow

“With its simply fascinating and elegant narrative, I, Circe is an ordinary and extraordinary story of women's life.”

-Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is Not a Perfect Thing

Poets have always talked about me as a woman who kneels before the -male- hero and begs for mercy; I would add medicine to their sweet wines, I would enchant them and turn them into pigs, I would make the crew of fast-moving ships forget their homes, and I would not allow them to return to their homes. What to say, putting women in their place is the bards' favorite pastime; As if it wouldn't be a true story if we didn't crawl on the ground and cry.

But they are wrong, you are wrong: Witchcraft does not necessarily arise from hatred, jealousy, or any other evil; I cast my first spell out of love.

I am Circe, the Witch of Aiaie, daughter of Helios. All my life I've been waiting for tragedy to find me. I had no doubt you would find it, because I had more desire, rebellion, and power than others thought I deserved, things that would attract lightning. And one day, I thought, I can't stand this world anymore.

Then an ancient god from the depths of the sea called out: So my child, build another world.

Madeline Miller in I, Circe; It not only presents the story of mythological characters such as Odysseus, Icarus, Minotaur, Prometheus and Zeus, which has been told for thousands of years, from a different perspective, but also manages to convey the world of the Olympian gods in the epic style of Homer.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish