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The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker

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#1464 of 8,085 books · #242 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2020) and the Women's Prize for Fiction (2019).

The Silence of the Girls was named a Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century. There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot. Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780241983218
Topics
Retelling of Greek mythologyWar and its aftermathWomen's voices and survival under oppression

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