The women of Troy : A novel / Pat Barker.
2022
PR 6052.A6488 W66 2022 (Mapit)
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Title
The women of Troy : A novel / Pat Barker.
Author
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
ISBN
0593311329 paperback
9780593311325 paperback
9780593311325 paperback
Published
New York : Anchor Books, 2022.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
284 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
PR 6052.A6488 W66 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
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