This narrates the well-known story of Achilles. However, it is told from Patroclus's point of view, his eternal companion and, acording to this novel, also his lover.
The story starts with Pattoclus's childhood, and the terrible event that changes his life forever, as he becomes an exile in Achilles's land. No longer a prince, at the beginning, he is with other boys that are being trained by the orders of Peleus, Achilles's father. Sitting in a corner of the diningroom, he delightfully admires Achilles's presence, his beauty and masculinity. Remember he is the son of Thetis, a sea-nymph, who is ferouciousle protective of his son and his famous destiny, knowing he will die young, but immortal in the tales of humans.
Soon Patroclus and Achilles become friends. It is in this moment when the author fully depicts the tension between these two boys, the description of their athletic bodies, the struggles to keep their passion controlled, the friendship leading to a deeper relationship.
The time of training with the centaur in the caves, away from the influence of Achilles's mother, helps them to build a bond that is indestructible, keeping each other together even in the worst times to come.
What happens to them is well-known. However, Miller is capable of making the reader avid to learn about the protagonists' destinies, afraid of losing them, wishing to finish the book and at the same time, for it not to finish ever.
Ana Ovejero
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