Metamorphica

<p>In the tradition of Zachary Mason&#146;s bestselling first novel <i>The Lost Books of the Odyssey</i> &#150; where he recast episodes from Homer&#146;s masterpiece &#150; <i>Metamorphica </i>now reimagines Ovid&#146;s epic poem of endless transformation <i>Metamorphoses</i>. Just as the Roman poet reinvigorated the Greek Classical legends 700 years after Homer so Mason now gives us a radical and exciting renovation of those myths 2000 years after Ovid.<br><br>It retells the great stories of Narcissus Orpheus Persephone Icarus Midas Medea and Actaeon and strings them together like the stars in constellations &#150; with even Ovid himself entering the narrative. It&#146;s as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino &#150; or artificial intelligence &#150; and brought glimmering back into our world. <i>Metamorphica</i> re-engages with the elemental power of the ancient shape-changing gods by keeping their essences while rewriting their stories. It is this extraordinary narrative approach that is so thrilling; we watch as the author extracts more and more out of the original legend &#150; adding infinite perspectives to narratives we thought we knew. Mason understands that the great myths are parables &#150; always in flux always relevant &#150; always throwing shards of light from the morning of the world.</p>