From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children--``brilliant...gripping...high drama...made tangible and graphic in Toibin\'s lush prose`` ( Booklist , starred review).
Clytemn. ``I have been acquainted with the smell of death.`` So begins Clytemnestra\'s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy.
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children--``brilliant...gripping...high drama...made tangible and graphic in Toibin\'s lush prose`` ( Booklist , starred review)
