The women of Troy /
Barker, Pat,
The women of Troy / Pat Barker. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2021. - 306 pages ; 24 cm. - Troy ; 2 . - Barker, Pat, 1943-. Troy ; 2. .
Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The coalition that held them together begins to fray, as old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, erstwhile queen Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, rebellious Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and she begins to see the path to revenge...
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Briseis, (Greek mythological character) --Fiction.
Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta --Fiction.
Briseis, (Legendary character) --Fiction.
Trojan War--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Troy (Extinct city)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
823.92
The women of Troy / Pat Barker. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2021. - 306 pages ; 24 cm. - Troy ; 2 . - Barker, Pat, 1943-. Troy ; 2. .
Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The coalition that held them together begins to fray, as old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, erstwhile queen Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, rebellious Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and she begins to see the path to revenge...
9780241427231 9780241427248
Briseis, (Greek mythological character) --Fiction.
Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta --Fiction.
Briseis, (Legendary character) --Fiction.
Trojan War--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Troy (Extinct city)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
823.92
