House of Names

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian , The Boston Globe , St. Louis Dispatch From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in Tóibín’s lush prose” ( Booklist , starred review). “I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient