House of Names - Colm Tibn
Category: Novel
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Duration: 8 hours, 47 minutes, 13 seconds Chapters: 27, Book Description ================ From the thrilling imagination of best-selling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children. I have been acquainted with the smell of death. So begins Clytemnestras tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband, King Agamemnon, left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover, Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war. Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter, Iphigeneia, with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her
