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082			_aFiction MIL-M
100			_aMiller, Madeline
245			_aSong of Achilles / _cMadeline Miller
260			_aIndia _bBloomsbury _c2011
300			_a352 p.
500			_aWinner of the Orange women's Prize for fiction The international sensation a Sunday Times and new York Times bestseller 'captivating' Donna tartt 'I loved it' J K Rowling 'ravishingly vivid' Emma Donoghue Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of achilles's mother thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. 'A book I could not put down' Ann Patchett ?an exciting, sexy, violent Superman version of the Iliad? guardian ?sexy, dangerous, mystical? Bettany Hughes.
650			_aFiction
650			_aMale friendship
650			_aAchilles (Mythological character)
650			_aGreece
650			_aTurkey--Troy (Extinct city)
650			_aCivilization
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