The silence of the girls
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The silence of the girls
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- Label
- The silence of the girls
- Statement of responsibility
- Pat Barker
- Subject
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- Trojan War -- Fiction
- Large print books
- trueGender role
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueWarriors
- trueMythological fiction
- trueBriseis
- trueCaptives
- Mistresses -- Fiction
- trueAgamemnon (Greek mythology)
- trueTroy (Extinct city)
- trueCivilization, Ancient
- truePatroclus (Greek mythology)
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueTrojan War
- Large type books
- trueWomen slaves
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- trueWar stories
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWomen and war
- trueAncient Aegean civilizations (3000–1000 BCE) -- -3000 -- -1000
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Troy (Extinct city) -- Fiction
- trueAchilles (Greek mythology)
- trueViolence in men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent, till now. Briseis was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and coolly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large. Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war, the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead, all of them erased by history
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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