Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
Location: FIC LEN
Genre: Mythology
The book you never knew you needed in your life. Glorious Exploits is madness. Nothing about it should work. It's like Kevin Barry-meets-Homer.
And yet. And yet. It is absolutely brilliant. So enjoyable. So funny and satisfying. So sad and brutal and glorious.
It is about war and art and literature and friendship and love and family and community. I loved it fully and hope it finds many readers.
“The hearts of men are alike wherever you go. The rest is scenery.”
― Glorious Exploits
Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction.
Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads.
They’re fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food.
And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry.
It’s audacious. It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life – love, friendship, art itself – it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of.
What could possibly go wrong?
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