Torn From Troy

Two-and-a half millennia after it was created Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend. Despite a simmering anger towards his captors Alexi gradually develops a grudging respect for them. As the Greeks fight off the angry Cicones weather a storm that pushes them far beyond charted waters and nearly succumb to the blandishments of the bewitching Lotus-eaters he realizes that they are not the demons they were said to be but people like himself.