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Ben Kirke Book Description: Ben Kirke Book Description Best Book of the Year according to NPR, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle and Newsweek Best Fantasy Book of 2018 according to Goodreads readers “This remarkable story will attract you "- Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow - "With its simply fascinating and elegant narrative, I, Circe is an ordinary and extraordinary story of women's life." - Eimear McBride, The Girl Is Not Born Author of It's a Thing - Poets have always talked about me as a woman who kneels in front of the -male- hero and begs for mercy; I would add medicine to their sweet wines, I would enchant them and turn them into pigs, I would make the crew of fast-moving ships forget their homes, and I would not allow them to return to their homes. What to say, putting women in their place is the bards' favorite pastime; As if it wouldn't be a true story if we didn't crawl on the ground and cry. But they are wrong, you are wrong: Witchcraft is not necessarily born of hatred, jealousy, or any other evil; I cast my first spell out of love. I am Circe, the daughter of Helios, the Witch of Aiaie. All my life I've been waiting for tragedy to find me. I had no doubt you would find it, because I had more desire, rebellion, and power than others thought I deserved, things that would attract lightning. And one day, I thought, I can't stand this world anymore. Then, an ancient god from the depths of the sea called out: Then, my child, make another world. I, Madeline Miller in Circe; It not only presents the story of mythological characters such as Odysseus, Icarus, Minotaur, Prometheus and Zeus, which has been told for thousands of years, from a different perspective, but also manages to convey the world of the Olympian gods in the epic style of Homer. (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Ithaki Publications and written by Madeline Miller, is now on Books in the World.