![]() “a lumpish girl whose eyebrows met in the middle”. I agree with another reviewer who noted outdated/sexist descriptions of women e.g. The main narrator isn’t particularly sympathetic and the situation post downfall of Troy isn’t presented as being particularly compelling. However I’m not sure what Barker was aiming for here. I really enjoyed Silence of the Girls and the Regeneration series. ![]() No clear plot and overly affected narration Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. ![]() And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. ![]() All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.īut the wind does not come. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. Following her best-selling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. ![]()
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