Troy #02: The Women of Troy

Troy #02: The Women of Troy
Pat Barker
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26 Aug 2021 UK
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Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls, an extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths from one of best writers of war fictionTroy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The coalition that held them together begins to fray, as old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, erstwhile queen Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, rebellious Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and she begins to see the path to revenge. . .

#01: A Prince of Troy
#01: Lord of the Silver Bow
#01: Silence of the Girls, The
#02: Shield of Thunder
#02: War at Troy, The
#02: Women of Troy, The
#03: Fall of Kings
#03: Spoils of Troy, The
#04: Return From Troy, The

In a novel filled with names from legend, Briseis stands tall as a heroine: brave, smart and loyal. Barker' s latest is a wonder. * Publisher' s Weekly * The reimagining of mythological epics is certainly having a moment (think, Circe and Song of Achilles), but renowned British writer Pat Barker' s The Women of Troy stands apart. Barker has already written about Briseis before, in the excellent The Silence of the Girls, and this continuation of the Trojan woman' s story feels like another victory for every person who was silenced by history, their story stolen from them. * Refinery 29 *
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing, she sent her fiction out. Thirty-five years later, she has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK' s highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women' s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.
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ISBN-13: 9780241427248
Published: 26 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 700g
Pages: 320

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