The silence of the girls : A novel / Pat Barker.

The silence of the girls : A novel / Pat Barker.

First Anchor Books edition.

9780525564102 (trade paperback)
0525564101 (trade paperback)

New York : Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2019.

©2018

English

293 pages ; 21 cm

PR 6052.A6488 S55 2019

823.914 B244s

Here is the story of The Illiad as we've never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer's epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece's two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp--concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead--as gods and mortals spar and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman--and makes an ancient story new again.

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