Category: Ransom

Set during the last year of the Trojan war, David Malouf’s novel, Ransom, focuses on the brave wings of fighters. Even though the battle story dominates the line, Malouf exposes a world where men follow alternative paths to violence and aggression. In the attempt to regain his son’s body, pity takes risks. The biggest danger…

Ransom (2009) by Australian novelist David Malouf is based on an episode from Homers Iliad and highlights the meeting between Achilles a demigod and Priam the king of Troy during the Trojan war. The novel explores themes of identity, fate, and mortality. Comparably, the film Atonement directed by Joe Wright (2007) is about a young…