The Women of Troy

Barker, Pat

ISBN 10: 0241427231 / ISBN 13: 9780241427231

Published by Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London, 2021

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, signed by Barker on a tipped in page, the book has a mild skew to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and lower cover corners, and subtle rubbing to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has slight bumps with mild creasing to the spine ends and corners, and is wrapped in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 211040

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Women of Troy
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241427231
• ISBN 13: 9780241427231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mythology

About this title

Synopsis

Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.

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 days, 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...