The award-winning author of The Four Seasons retells The
Odyssey from the point of view of Odysseus and Penelope's
daughter.
With her father Odysseus gone for twenty years, Xanthe
barricades herself in her royal chambers to escape the
rapacious suitors who would abduct her to gain the throne.
Xanthe turns to her loom to weave the adventures of her
life, from her upbringing among servants and slaves, to the
years spent in hiding with her mother's cousin, Helen of
Troy, to the passion of her sexual awakening in the arms of
the man she loves.
And when a stranger dressed as a beggar appears at the
palace, Xanthe wonders who will be the one to decide her
future-a suitor she loathes, a brother she cannot respect,
or a father who doesn't know she exists...
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