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The Voyage Home
After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.
Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death - and her own - while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra's frenzies and the horrors to come.
Meanwhile, awaiting the fleet's return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon.
Heart-shattered by her husband's choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.
As one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon's death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone's fates forever.
18.70 €
The Women of Troy
Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday TimesTroy 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.
The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.
Cassandra, 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. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king.
Hecuba, 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. And 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. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls.
'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' Sunday Times 'The Women Of Troy's immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker's precise, elegant writing' Metro'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' ipaper
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.
The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.
Cassandra, 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. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king.
Hecuba, 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. And 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. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls.
'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' Sunday Times 'The Women Of Troy's immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker's precise, elegant writing' Metro'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' ipaper
12.50 €
Η σιωπή των κοριτσιών
Δέκα χρόνια η πόλη της Τροίας αντέχει στην πολιορκία των ελληνικών στρατευμάτων. Το αίμα συνεχίζει να χύνεται για την Ωραία Ελένη. Μετά από πολεμικές επιχειρήσεις σε γειτονικές πόλεις, μια άλλη γυναίκα καταλήγει ως σκλάβα στο στρατόπεδο των πολιορκητών, η βασίλισσα της Λυρνησσού, η Βρισηίδα. Γίνεται παλλακίδα του πανίσχυρου Αχιλλέα, το τρόπαιο εκείνου που κατέστρεψε την πόλη της και σκότωσε τον σύζυγο και τα αδέρφια της· μια από τις χιλιάδες αιχμάλωτες -τις ιερόδουλες, τις νοσοκόμες, τις γυναίκες που ετοιμάζουν τους νεκρούς για ταφή-, των οποίων η τύχη δεν απασχολεί την επίσημη ιστορία.
Οξυδερκής, ευαίσθητη αλλά και αλύγιστη από την καθημερινή φρίκη του πολέμου, παρατηρεί τους
άντρες και τις άλλες γυναίκες, μέχρι την τελική αναμέτρηση που θα κρίνει όχι μόνο τη δική της μοίρα αλλά και ολόκληρου του αρχαίου κόσμου.
Η Πατ Μπάρκερ αφηγείται το έπος της Ιλιάδας με τη φωνή της Βρισηίδας. Με την άμεση, ρεαλιστική και ωμή γραφή της αγκιστρώνει τον αναγνώστη, ενώ ταυτόχρονα πυροδοτεί τη φαντασία και χτίζει με μαεστρία τους χαρακτήρες. Οι ιστορίες που αφηγείται μπορεί να μας είναι γνωστές από τη μυθολογία, αλλά ιδωμένες από την οπτική της Μπάρκερ πλημμυρίζουν από αναπάντεχες αποκαλύψεις. Δεν έχει τίποτα το ωραίο και το μεγαλειώδες ο πόλεμος, φέρνει μόνο όλεθρο, καταστροφή και ανυπολόγιστο ανθρώπινο κόστος. Οι δε γυναίκες, ανύπαρκτες και ξεχασμένες...
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