The Silence of the Girls: From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration

Author:   Pat Barker
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
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9780241983201


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it 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.

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Author:   Pat Barker
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780241983201


ISBN 10:   0241983207
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant today * Grazia * The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century * Edith Hall * Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today * Woman and Home * An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history * Independent * She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls is a book that will be read in generations to come * Daily Telegraph * An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies * Guardian * An assured triumph * Sunday Times * Its magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers * Evening Standard * Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable, The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after her first novel was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of her powers * Irish Times * A stunning return to form * Observer * A searing twist on The Iliad... Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... Chilling, powerful, audacious * The Times *


'[Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of war...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's founding conflicts.' * The Guardian * The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant today * Grazia * The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century * Edith Hall * Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today * Woman and Home * An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history * Independent * She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls is a book that will be read in generations to come * Daily Telegraph * An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies * Guardian * An assured triumph * Sunday Times * Its magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers * Evening Standard * Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable, The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after her first novel was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of her powers * Irish Times * A stunning return to form * Observer *


'[Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of war...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's founding conflicts.' * The Guardian * The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant today * Grazia * The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century * Edith Hall * Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today * Woman and Home * An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history * Independent * She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls is a book that will be read in generations to come * Daily Telegraph * An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies * Guardian * An assured triumph * Sunday Times * Its magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers * Evening Standard * Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable, The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after her first novel was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of her powers * Irish Times * A stunning return to form * Observer * A searing twist on The Iliad... Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... Chilling, powerful, audacious * The Times *


A searing twist on The Iliad... Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... Chilling, powerful, audacious * The Times * A stunning return to form * Observer * Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable, The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after her first novel was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of her powers * Irish Times * Its magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers * Evening Standard * An assured triumph * Sunday Times * An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies * Guardian * She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls is a book that will be read in generations to come * Daily Telegraph * An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history * Independent * Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today * Woman and Home * The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century * Edith Hall * The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant today * Grazia * [Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of war...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's founding conflicts * The Guardian *


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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.

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