{"product_id":"the-silence-of-the-girls-9780241983201","title":"The Silence of the Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it  Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles- famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.  No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad- the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241983201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 18 Jun 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x2.2(W)236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 236\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003ePat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing twist on \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e... Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... \u003cb\u003eChilling, powerful, audacious\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning return to form\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls \u003c\/i\u003eshows that 36 years after her first novel was published, \u003cb\u003eBarker is a writer at the peak of her powers\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eIts magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... \u003cb\u003eYou are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn assured triumph\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eimportant, powerful, memorable book\u003c\/b\u003e that invites us to look differently not only at \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e 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 * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eShe gives a voice to the voiceless...\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will be read in generations to come\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impressive feat of literary revisionism \u003c\/b\u003ethat should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... \u003cb\u003eBarker makes us re-think history\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today\u003c\/b\u003e * Woman and Home *\u003cbr\u003eThe most important novel based on \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eso far this century * Edith Hall *","brand":"Pat Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48717332742361,"sku":"9780241983201","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/91dc5WQLSmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1779023419","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-silence-of-the-girls-9780241983201","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}