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The Silence of the Girls

by Pat Barker


Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award for 2018 and for the Women's Prize for Fiction for 2019.

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.

336 pages.

ISBN: 9780241983201

€ 12.50 

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Date of Publication: 23/04/2019

  
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The Silence of the Girls also appears in these Categories:

Fiction

Costa Book Awards

Women's Prize for Fiction