House of Names
Colm Toibin
RRP $34.99, Trade Paperback, Picador
From the thrilling imagination of
bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of
Clytemnestra – spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and
instantly compelling – and her children.
Electra, daughter of a murdered
father, loyal subject of the rightful king, watches Clytemnestra and her lover
with cold anger and slow-burning cunning. She watches, as they walk the gardens
and corridors of the house of Atreus. She waits for the traitors to become complacent,
to believe they are finally safe; she waits for her exiled brother, Orestes,
for the boy to become a warrior, for fate to follow him home. She watches and
she waits, until her spies announce her brother's return...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colm Tóibín was born in
Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and
lived in Barcelona before returning to Ireland in 1978, where he worked as a
journalist. His other novels are: The
Heather Blazing; The Story of the Night; The Blackwater Lightship; The Master;
Brooklyn; and Nora Webster. His
short story collections are Mothers and
Sons and The Empty Family. He is
a regular contributor to the Dublin
Review, the New York Review of Books
and the London Review of Books. He is
currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University.
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