The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker, Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox

eAudio - 2018

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award • Finalist for the Women’s Prize for FictionOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times 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. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female pr...isoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes... more