Signed First Edition Book Group "Son of Nobody"

Wellesley Books is pleased to announce our latest book group: The Signed First Edition Book Group.

Our May meeting will take place on the 13th to discuss Son of Nobody by Yann Martel. (See below for more about this exciting new book.)

How It Works

• Sign up for this month’s discussion by buying a ticket through this page and you'll receive a signed first edition. You can also buy in-store or by phone (781-431-1160).
• We will meet at the store on the given date to discuss the current selection.
• After the meeting, we'll announce our selection for the next month.
• Feel free to join in as often as you are able.
• Please note that we cannot issue refunds unless you wish to return the book. In this case, the process follows our normal book return policy, which can be found on our website.

Lastly, please be aware of our new parking system for the lot behind the store. Parking is free, but you must check in with Vend Park. We recommend doing this before you leave for the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.

The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner’s story was lost to time—until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and daughter behind to study at Oxford, discovers its relics nearly thirty centuries later.

As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, a personal message to his beloved child appears in the ancient text, like a palimpsest. Despite the thousands of years and hundreds of miles that separate Psoas and Harlow, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of love, ambition, and grief.

Son of Nobody takes readers from the plains of Troy to the halls of Oxford, from the classical to the contemporary, from ancient verses to modern footnotes. It is a dazzling, masterful feat of myth, history, and domesticity that explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, always.

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