A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist , Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women\'s Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we\'ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles.
Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman--and makes an ancient story new again..
Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp--concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead--as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion.
In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece\'s two most powerful warriors.
Given only a few words in Homer\'s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War.
A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist , Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women\'s Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we\'ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles
