![]() Speaking to his inspiration for writing the novel, Malouf said, "seeing the physical disintegration of the Twin Towers in real-time on television, continued the chain of events that led to me writing Ransom-this idea of the demise of the city." ![]() Also, Priam and Achilles are covered much more in Malouf's Ransom, which leads to more differences between the two texts. ![]() First, Somax, who drives the cart Priam rides on his way to his negotiations with Achilles, is not mentioned in the original narrative this change leads to a drastically different mode of interaction with Hermes in Ransom. Ransom differs from the Iliad in several key respects. While the Iliad covers the entirety of the last year of the Trojan War, a famous conflict in Greek myth between the allied Greeks and the citizens of the city of Troy, Ransom deals specifically with the aftermath of the death of the Trojan prince, Hector, and his father's attempt to get back Hector's body so he can give him a proper burial. It retells the story of Homer's Iliad from books 22 to 24. ![]() David Malouf's Ransom (2009) is a profound novel of immense suffering, sorrow, and redemption. ![]()
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