The silence of the girls: a novel

✍ Scribed by Pat Barker

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 184 KB
• Edition: First United States edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0385544227

✦ Synopsis

"This is an important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad**but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies. 'The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.' Barker's novel is an invitation to tell those forgotten stories, and to listen for voices silenced by history and power."
-- Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of** The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek...