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The silence of the girls / Pat Barker.
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Author: Barker, Pat, 1943-
Year: 2018
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Classification: Fiction
Publisher: UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2018.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780241338070 (hbk.) :
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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?
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My first dip into Pat Barker and I should not have left it so long. A marvellous take on the old legend, told with sure pace and beauty.
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  • Briseis (Legendary character)
  • Historical fiction.
  • Trojan War
  • Troy (Extinct city)
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