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Silence Of The Girls

Pat Barker

£9.99

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“A striking and moving retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis, the abduction of whom sparks the wrath of Achilles, this book explores the position of women in the epic world and questions the behaviour of the heroes idolised throughout history.”
The Silence of the Girls
Review by Hattie Williams

When her city falls to the Greeks, Briseis’s old life is shattered. She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she’s not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters. The Trojan War is known as a man’s story: a quarrel between men over a woman, stolen from her home and spirited across the sea. But what of the other women in this story, silenced by history? What words did they speak when alone with each other, in the laundry, at the loom, when laying out the dead?

ISBN: 9780241983201 Category:

Description

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

‘Chilling, powerful, audacious’ The Times

‘Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers’ Evening Standard

There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent – until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all – retold by the witness that history forgot . . .

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER’S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES!

*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award*

Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.

Additional information

Weight 0.24 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 2.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

325
Language

English
Edition

1st paperback ed
Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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