Madeline Miller’s lyrical first novel, The Song of Achilles, is a love story told from the viewpoint of Patroclus, a relatively minor character in The Iliad, yet the tragic fulcrum of the Trojan War. (Patroclus dons Achilles’s armor and is killed by Hector, the great warrior Achilles returns to battle, changing the course of the war and earning eternal fame.)
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