Le Chant d'Achille

The passionate and tragic destiny of Achilles and Patrocle, in the midst of the Trojan war, are still only children: Patrocle is as ugly and clumsy as Achilles is solar, powerful, promised to the glory of immortals. But, growing side by side, a bond is formed between these two beings so dissimilar. When, at the call of King Agamemnon, the young princes join in the siege of Troy, the wisdom of each other and the anger of the other might well make the course of the war deviate... At the risk of making the Olympus and his oracles lie. "Unable to let go of this book. All the savagery and the thrill of antiquity." Donna Tartt "Takes away his characters, the author brings back to life the ancient statues. And one leaves his book with a great desire to re-immerse himself in Homer. "The World This work received the Orange Prize for fiction.