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Double Vision
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Double Vision is Pat Barker's thought-provoking Booker Prize-winning novel of modern warfare....
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Noonday
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In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration -...
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The Women of Troy
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Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her...
Mythology Greek Mythology Folk Tales Myths and Fairy Tales
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Life Class
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Life Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy - a powerful and unforgettable...
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Toby's Room
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Toby's Room is the second novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy, returning to the First World War...
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A Thousand Ships
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of...
Greek Mythology The Trojan War Retellings Literary Fiction
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ClareR (5603 KP) rated The Silence of the Girls in Books
Nov 14, 2018
The violence of war is so graphically described in this novel. Briseis, along with the other slave women, are supposed to care for these mens wounds and fulfil their every (sexual) wish - the very men who had murdered their husbands, fathers and sons.
I've never read a Greek myth from the point of view of the women - they were supposed to be silent. Their stories are forgotten, but Pat Barker brings them to life in this book. We hear their sadness, their worries, their opinions of their masters. I could almost smell the filth, smoke, food and sweat of the Greek camp (in reality, I would imagine that I'd walk in the other direction!).
I've always loved the Greek Myths: I read them as a child and a teenager, and I'm really enjoying the resurgence of these stories at the moment. This novel adds another dimension to these stories, which I really loved. I'd highly recommend this book.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Hamish Hamilton for my copy of this book.