The Silence Of The Girls Pat Barker by Pat Barker 9780385544221, 0385544227 instant download after payment.

"[H]er dialogue, as usual, hums with intelligence. But unlike her World War I novels, the verisimilitude quickly thins... A depiction of Achilles' endless grief for Patroclus becomes itself nearly endless."  -  Kirkus Reviews

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 by the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman - Helen. 

With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, is rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives — and it is nothing short of magnificent.

"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