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008			180327s2018 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2018014387
020			_a9780385544214 (hardcover)
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100	1		_aBarker, Pat, _d1943-
245	1	4	_aThe silence of the girls : _ba novel / _cPat Barker.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2018]
300			_a293 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman--Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and cooly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large. Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war--the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead--all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives--and it is nothing short of magnificent"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aTrojan War _vFiction.
651		0	_aTroy (Extinct city) _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Historical. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / War & Military. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aWar stories. _2gsafd
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBarker, Pat, 1943- author. _tSilence of the girls _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Doubleday, 2018 _z9780385544221 _w(DLC) 2018015358
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