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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
5.0

A poetic, dreamy and funny retelling of the story of Penelope. It's entertaining and very insighful at the same time.
I liked the retelling of this part of Odissey as Penelope is always considered the very faithful spouse but hardly a person with other characteristics.
This books also reminded me of another one I really like, Christa Wolf's Medea.
Strongly recommended and really great.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Canongate Books