In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black S

In the first century AD, Ovid was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, David Malouf has fashioned a novel about c

In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black

In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black

This crisp translation by Alison Dundy maintains the fast-paced action and bitingly satiric tone of the original.