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Pat Barker

The Silence of the Girls

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«This is 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. 'The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.' Barker's novel is an invitation to tell those forgotten stories, and to listen for voices silenced by history and power.»
—Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek…
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  • Widyashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
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    • Seth Bingohas quoted5 years ago
      “Don’t think about your previous life,” he said. “That’s all over now—you’ll only make yourself miserable if you start brooding about it. Forget! This is your life now.”

      Forget. So there was my duty laid out in front of me, as simple and clear as a bowl of water: Remember.
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    • Unicorn Loverhas quoted25 days ago
      Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles…How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him “the butcher.”
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      • Unicorn Loverhas quoted4 months ago
        died with both hands gripping Achilles’s spear, as if he thought it belonged to him and Achilles was trying to take it away.
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