Penelopiad is a book from a series of ancient myths rethought by modern writers from different countries, including Antonia Susan Byatt, Ali Smith, David Grossman, Su Tong, Olga Tokarchuk, Victor Pelevin and others. A wise, compassionate, disturbing story about what sometimes happens when the power in society belongs to men. What if Penelope - the faithful wife of Odysseus, who waited for him for twenty years in Ithaca and raised her son Telemachus - conceived something that Homer forgot to mention? And what secrets do the twelve maids hanged by order of Odysseus keep? Margaret Atwood gives women the opportunity to tell their own version of a legendary story.