A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the Women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy.
She lives in Durham, England..
She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000.
Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls , was shortlisted for the Women\'s Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK, and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019.
Her Regeneration Trilogy novels set in the First World War were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as one of the greatest historical novels in British literature.
About author(s): PAT Barker is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her working class masterpiece Union Street in 1982.
She forges alliances when she can, with Priam\'s aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles\'s slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments.
Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.
The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel.
It does not come, because the gods are offended.
They await a fair wind for the Aegean.
An important, powerful, memorable book.--Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the Women of Troy themselves.
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the Women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy
