"I have been acquainted with the smell of death."
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pickColm Tóibín's re-telling of the events from the first two plays of “The Oresteia“.
The story is stripped down to its essentials of characters and events. If you didn't know the story in advance, there is nothing really to suggest that we are in Bronze Age Greece rather than any other society before the invention of firearms. This made it curiously uninvolving emotionally for the most part and yet completely compelling.
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