The Silence of the Girls

From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration

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Harry Hartog's review

"Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles . . . How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’." The Silence of the Girls is yet another Iliad retelling but, unlike many others, Pat Barker is not here to tell you a flowery story about love, or a thrilling tale of war. This novel gives a voice to the ever silent women in Greek Mythology and gives its readers an insight into the brutal lives they lived. It follows the perspective of Briesis, a Trojan war-prize who is gifted to the Greek hero Achilles; who she doesn't see as a hero at all. Barker pulls no punches but creates a profoundly important addition to the ever growing number of mythology adaptations- I thought about this book for weeks. - Maddy, Harry Hartog Burnside



Description

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.

ISBN:
9780241983201
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
336
Published:
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight:
242 g