The silence of the girls. / Pat Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Pat, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trojan War--Fiction.

Trojan War.

Troy (Extinct city)--Fiction.

Troy (Extinct city).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

336 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin Books Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a reimagining of the most famous conflict in literature - the legendary Trojan War.0When 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. 0The 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?0In this magnificent historical novel, Pat Barker charts one woman's journey through the chaos of the most famous war in history, as she struggles to free herself and to become the author of her own story.0.

ISBN:

9780241338070

0241338077

OCLC:

1046071591