Name: The Children of Jocasta
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Author: Natalie Haynes
ISBN: 9780063418301

Type

Physical Book

Author

Natalie Haynes

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780063418301

Synopsis "The Children of Jocasta"

"Reinterprets two of Sophocles' Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful."--The New Yorker"A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene."--Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and CirceThe New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as we've known it.

Natalie Haynes

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Natalie Haynes es una escritora, comediante y divulgadora británica especializada en mitología y literatura clásica grecorromana. Estudió lenguas clásicas en la Universidad de Cambridge y construyó una trayectoria singular al combinar investigación académica con humor, radio y narrativa contemporánea. A través de novelas, ensayos y programas culturales para la BBC, se convirtió en una de las voces más reconocidas en la reinterpretación moderna de los mitos clásicos desde perspectivas femeninas. Su estilo destaca por acercar tragedias antiguas al lector actual sin perder complejidad histórica, demostrando que los dramas familiares griegos ya tenían suficiente caos mucho antes de existir las redes sociales.

Entre sus obras más celebradas se encuentra Las mil naves (A Thousand Ships), novela inspirada en la guerra de Troya narrada desde el punto de vista de las mujeres afectadas por el conflicto. El libro recibió gran reconocimiento internacional y fue finalista del Women’s Prize for Fiction. También destacan títulos como Stone Blind, centrado en Medusa, y Pandora’s Jar, ensayo sobre las figuras femeninas de la mitología griega. Haynes ha sido ampliamente valorada por rescatar voces olvidadas de los relatos clásicos y reinterpretarlas con inteligencia, ironía y sensibilidad contemporánea.

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