After Troy, Taban lo Liyong’s book length poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer’s Odyssey and Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Its focus is the homecoming from the Trojan war of two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon. Lo Liyong recreates their thoughts and speech, adding dialogue from other characters, most of them women, who are not given a voice in the original stories. after troy is also a philosophical enquiry into retribution and justice.
“Taban lo Liyong’s book After Troy is available from Deep South via their distributor UKZN Press in Southern Africa, distributor Amo Publishers in all other African countries, and international distributor African Books Collective in all countries outside of Africa. An ebook version is available from African Books Collective.
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