by Pat Barker · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780525564102
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«The Silence of the Girls» is the historical novel by Pat Barker, published by Anchor in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the Trojan War from the perspective of Briseis, a Trojan queen turned captive of Achilles. Barely mentioned in the Iliad, she narrates her life among the prisoners of the Greek camp and gives voice to the women who lived in the shadow of the army: concubines, nurses, prostitutes, and those tasked with preparing the dead, while gods and mortals clash in a legendary war.
The cover presents Pat Barker as a Booker Prize winner and author of The Regeneration Trilogy. The work belongs to the series The Women of Troy and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Work aimed at readers of historical fiction and mythological fiction, with special interest in the Trojan War and the female voices of the epic narrative.
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
