{"product_id":"book-cydq","title":"Beowulf: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as \"bro\" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil.\" --\u003ci\u003e AudioFile Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Earphones Award winner \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new, feminist translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mere Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—\u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003ehas always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand.\" --Ruth Franklin, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale.\"--Barbara VanDenburgh, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49369873678640,"sku":"40cydq","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369873613104,"sku":"BDcydq","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/311382-cydq-Square.jpg?v=1734637802","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cydq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}