In concept this is a very unusual book by David Malouf. The author takes complete liberty with what might have happened to the Roman poet OVID during his period of exile and unto his death. I don't recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to read pages (although it is short) of cerebral ponderings with little to no dialogue but, in a way, a lot of action. Here is some action about Fate:
We barely recognize the annunciation when it comes, declaring: Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since Fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.
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