Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Yann Martel for the release of his latest novel Son of Nobody. A signing will follow the event.
This event will take place at OFFSITE at the Marran Theater in Cambridge. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
ABOUT SON OF NOBODY
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner’s story was lost to time—until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and daughter behind to study at Oxford, discovers its relics nearly thirty centuries later.
As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, a personal message to his beloved child appears in the ancient text, like a palimpsest. Despite the thousands of years and hundreds of miles that separate Psoas and Harlow, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of love, ambition, and grief.
Son of Nobody takes readers from the plains of Troy to the halls of Oxford, from the classical to the contemporary, from ancient verses to modern footnotes. It is a dazzling, masterful feat of myth, history, and domesticity that explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, always.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the international bestseller that won the 2002 Booker Prize and was adapted to the screen in the Oscar–winning film by Ang Lee. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
TICKETS $11 - $39 USD
There are two ticket types.
1) Option 1 includes admission for 1 person to the event, as well as one copy of Son of Nobody.
2) Option 2 includes admission only for 1 person.
Additional copies of Son of Nobody will also be available for purchase at the event. Yann Martel will sign and personalize books following the event.