{"product_id":"the-women-of-troy-von-pat-barker-1","title":"The Women of Troy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing her bestselling, critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe women of Troy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Troy \u003c\/i\u003econtinues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Readers turn to Barker's novels for their plain truths and clear-eyed sense of our history and creation stories. But the sombre clarity of her writing is offset by a luminous wisdom' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Women Of Troy's\u003c\/i\u003e immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker's precise, elegant writing' \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Barker has always looked on the world with the combination of a cold eye and a sympathetic understanding. Her characterisation is sharp, her sympathy deep' i\u003ci\u003epaper \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780241988336\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780241988336","offer_id":39414811164765,"sku":"9780241988336","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/587e0c9e-3faf-4946-99db-aabc36cce7a8.jpg?v=1781756470","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-women-of-troy-von-pat-barker-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}