![]() ![]() Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls. In Barker’s masterly continuation of her fiercely feminist take on Homer’s Iliad (after The Silence of the. Once again faced with the chance to shape history. Doubleday, 27.95 (304p) ISBN SBN 978-9-0. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. And Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. Home England Pat Barker The Women of Troy Pat Barker: The Women of Troy If you have read Pat Barkers The Silence of the Girls - and you really should. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.Ĭassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. ![]() But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. ![]()
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