{"product_id":"9781039001503","title":"Son of Nobody","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire • Art+ • The Times • The Guardian • The Observer • The Financial Times • BBC • The Sydney Morning Herald • \u003c\/i\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eSpring 2026 Read • Featured in The American Booksellers Association's Spring 2026 Preview • \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The past is never done with: always the song continues”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem \u003ci\u003eThe Psoad\u003c\/i\u003e, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sole translator and interpreter of \u003ci\u003eThe Psoad\u003c\/i\u003e, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, \u003ci\u003eSon of Nobody \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always.","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50197367259382,"sku":"9781039001503","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/6275\/1222\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fee37dd4-fd7a-4a58-a7d0-d2b7c6a739e6.jpg?v=1774993050","url":"https:\/\/alphaandomegabooks.ca\/products\/9781039001503","provider":"Alpha And Omega Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}