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The Women of Troy

Door Pat Barker

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#390122-ZD34
Titel	The Women of Troy
Auteur	Barker, Pat
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Hamish Hamilton
Jaar van uitgave	2021
ISBN10	024142724X
ISBN13	9780241427248
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Taut, masterly, wholly absorbing. Still one of the greatest stories ever written. A book that will be read in generations to come' Daily Telegraph on The Silence of the Girls Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless d... (Lees verder)ays, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous…
Pagina's	306
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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