In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us Ransom, a “dignified and thought-provoking” (New York Times) reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad. Now on sale from Pantheon Books.