House of Names

Picador, Australia, 2017. Reprint. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. 262 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, Australia, 2017. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in new condition and comes in new dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, the murderess Clytemnestra tells of the deception of Agamemnon, how he sacrificed her eldest daughter - her beloved Iphigenia - to the Trojan campaign; how Clytemnestra used what power she had, seducing the prisoner Aegisthus, turning the government against its lord; plotting the many long years until her beacon fires announce the king's return ...Electra, daughter of a murdered father, loyal subject of the rightful king, studies Clytemnestra and her lover with cold anger and slow-burning cunning. She watches as they walk the gardens and corridors of the palace. She waits for the traitors to become complacent, to believe they are finally safe; she waits for her exiled brother, Orestes, for the boy to become a warrior, for fate to follow him home. She watches and she waits, until her spies announce her brother's return ... *** Quantity Available: 4. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9781760551421. Inventory No: 20050137.. 9781760551421