The Silence of the Girls: A retelling of the classic Greek myth, Troy, from the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration - Couverture souple

Barker, Pat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241983207 ISBN 13 : 9780241983201

Editeur : Penguin, 2019

Synopsis

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the powerful Greek myth retelling from the Sunday Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of The Odyssey and Madeline Miller's Circe and Song of Achilles.

'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times

'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers.

Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

*Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award*

'This feminist retelling of the Iliad through the lens of ordinary Greek women is as good as it gets. Clever, cool, devastating' Sabine Durrant, The Week

Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

When her city falls to the Greeks, Briseis's old life is shattered. She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she's not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters. The Trojan War is known as a man's story: a quarrel between men over a woman, stolen from her home and spirited across the sea. But what of the other women in this story, silenced by history? What words did they speak when alone with each other, in the laundry, at the loom, when laying out the dead? In this magnificent historical novel, Pat Barker charts one woman's journey through the chaos of the most famous war in history, as she struggles to free herself and to become the author of her own story.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241983207
• ISBN 13: 9780241983201
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas