Category: | Book |
By (author): | Barker, Pat |
Subject: | FICTION / General |
FICTION / Historical | |
FICTION / Literary | |
FICTION / War & Military | |
Publisher: | Doubleday |
Published: | August 2021 |
Format: | Book-hardcover |
Pages: | 304 |
Size: | 9.25in x 6.12in |
From The Publisher* | A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Illiad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy. |
Review Quote* | "[A] masterly continuation of her fiercely feminist take on Homer's Iliad. . . In a novel filled with names from legend, Briseis stands tall as a heroine: brave, smart and loyal. . . Barker's latest is a wonder."-Publisher's Weekly Starred Review |
Biographical Note | PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her working class masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels set in the First World War were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as one of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK, and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. She lives in Durham, England. |