• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - 9780241983201
1 1

The Silence of the Girls

The Silence of the Girls

From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration

By Pat Barker

Paperback | ISBN 9780241983201

$22.99 AUD
$22.99 AUD

Condition: New
Sale
GST included. Shipping calculated at checkout.
Condition

The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it

Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles- famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.

No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad- the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history.

GIFT WRAPPING

Gift Wrapping available. Select the Gift Wrap option in your cart prior to checkout.

BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241983201
Publish/Release date:
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages: 336
Width (mm): 128
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 28

View full details

Gift Vouchers and Curated Book Recommendations