House of Names
- author
- Colm Tóibín
- Narrator
- Miscellaneous
- Length
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 23904
- Categories
- Historical Fiction
- Reviews
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On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.
Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.
