The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Briseis is a queen before the Greek army sacks her city, kills her family and hands her to Achilles as a war prize, and Barker retells the Trojan War entirely from her perspective and that of the other enslaved women whose suffering the Iliad treats as background detail to the heroes' glory.

Barker restores voice and interiority to women the original epic reduces to prizes and casualties, and Briseis's clear-eyed observation of Achilles's rage and Agamemnon's pride reframes the entire war as a story of male violence experienced from underneath rather than celebrated from within.

A widely acclaimed feminist retelling of the Iliad, a Women's Prize finalist.

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