The Penelopiad

3 hrs. 27 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Margaret Atwood

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Penelope—the daughter of the Spartan king Icarus, the cousin of beautiful Helen—is presented as the ideal of a faithful wife. For twenty long years she waits for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War, resisting the advances of greedy suitors. In Margaret Atwood’s version, this ancient myth takes on a new voice. Before the reader unfolds Penelope’s life story, told by herself—a story full of contradictions and secrets, infused with irony and passion, and presenting many familiar images and motifs of ancient mythology in a completely unexpected light.