AN IMAGINARY LIFE by David Malouf, Book Review: Haunting
In An Imaginary Life author David Malouf tells a very big story in very few words.
The story is set in the time of the Roman Empire with the protagonist and narrating character the Roman poet Ovid. Ovid had lived a life of mischief and excess prior to his exile in a backwater called Tomis. He does not understand their language, nor do they understand his – he considers the people he lives with ‘natives’ and the tribes that attack the town of Tomis ‘savages’.
