Yann Martel

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The Book Show · Yann Martel flips the script on a Greek classic · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

And I mean American football, Canadian football, not soccer.

I miss Fidelis' soccer games too, but I miss Jasper's first football game.

Big shoulders, padded, little tiny legs, running around the field, getting flattened by the bigger boys.

I miss that.

And that hurts.

I can't replace that.

But it's wonderful talking about books.

So same thing in Son of Nobody.

Harlow leaves his wife and his daughter, Helen,

Because there's a lure of Oxyrhynchus papyri.

There's a lure of Oxford.

And there's, you know, how do you balance that?

How do you live with that?

Same thing with the ancient Greeks.

Agamemnon and the Greeks leave their homeland for 10 years and longer, Odysseus 20 years.

Some return, Agamemnon's promptly assassinated.

In the same way, in a sense, Harlow is too.

So I wanted that parallel and that, you know, this is worth it, is it worth it?

That question of the worth of our work.

I'm in Australia.

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