{"product_id":"the-odyssey-ulf-borkowski-9798195798536","title":"The Odyssey: Homecoming is Not a Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Odyssey: Homecoming is Not a Place\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomer's epic reimagined as a modern novel: literary, sharp-witted, precise-and strikingly contemporary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe war-weary strategist Odysseus is trying to get home. But between him and Ithaca lie not adventures, but trials everyone knows, only told on a larger scale: seduction through meaning, decisions without clean hands, hunger as a test of morality, stillness as the most beautiful form of captivity. On islands, in storms, in palaces, and at the margins of society, Odysseus gathers not only scars, but an unsettling insight: homecoming is not a place, but a state one must work to regain.\u003cbr\u003eWhile Penelope withstands a siege at home with cool intelligence, Odysseus becomes a beggar in his own house and must learn that courtesy can kill just as surely as the sea.\u003cbr\u003eIn the end, it is not victory that awaits, but the hardest discipline of all: peace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel about power and language, longing, and self-deception-and about the truth that homecoming is not a place, but work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ulf Borkowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195798536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d","brand":"Ulf Borkowski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801498333439,"sku":"9798195798536","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-odyssey-ulf-borkowski-9798195798536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}