An Imaginary LifeAn Imaginary Life is described by the Wall Street Journal as "a brilliantly inventive novel Malouf puts on a dazzling literary display in this arresting, original, lyrical work." In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving