{"title":"Madeline Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches and writes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Song of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-song-of-achilles","title":"The Song of Achilles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAchilles, \"the best of all the Greeks,\" son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48000691667192,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"BAM","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/files\/Songof.jpg?v=1771410301"},{"product_id":"circe","title":"Circe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThreatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48000709787896,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"BAM","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/files\/Circe.jpg?v=1771410820"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/collections\/Madeline.webp?v=1771410491","url":"https:\/\/buybook.ba\/collections\/madeline-miller.oembed","provider":"Buybook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}