Metamorphoses: Translated by Stephanie McCarter (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Fiction_Gift_Guide " --The New York Times

" --The New York Times

health and happiness

potent novel

and relentlessly suspenseful

Shigehiro Oishi's father has lived his entire life in a small mountain town in Japan

Metamorphoses: Translated by Stephanie McCarter (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Fiction_Gift_Guide " --The New York TimesWinner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovids classic. A Penguin Classic Ovids Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict,