The Women of Troy- A Novel by Pat Barker

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A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured itan extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and one of contemporary literature's most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless warincluding the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Dimensions- 5.1" W x 7.9" H x 0.7" D
    • Genre- Fiction
    • Publisher- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Publication date- 09-06-2022
    • Page count- 304
    • ISBN- 9780593311325

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2 years ago
from Alabama

Women, War and the Longings for Home

The Trojan War has finally ended after a decade of brutality, and so many men have perished—both Trojan and Greek—women are in the majority, many former slaves, as well as freed women find themselves forced to fend for themselves now, although Trojan women know that they will be ultimately forced into indentured prostitution and put on boats to Greece when the tides become favorable enough for sailing in Pat Barker’s, “The Women of Troy.” This slow-paced saga of restless women exploring their new-found independence and men struggling still to prove their identities and prowess is an age-old and timeless story thousands of years in the making. JoyReaderGirl1 graciously thanks NetGalley, Author Pat Barker, and Publisher Doubleday Books /Doubleday for this advance reader’s copy (ARC) for review.

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2 years ago
from Miami, FL

Eehhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I was looking forward the second installment in this series, because I did enjoy The Silence of the Girls. I love love love retellings of Greek myths, especially when they are told from the POV of these really important women. This one let me down. The title implies that we'll be reading about or even hearing from the WOMEN of Troy, but that doesn't end up being the case here. We get three POVs throughout the book and two of those are men?? As far as reading about the women goes, we get a little bit here and there about other slave girls in the various compounds, but most of this story seemed to be Briseis desperately trying to be the savior. She wanted so badly for the other women to see her as their equal while also making the most miniscule attempts to use her status as Alcimus' wife to aid them. Oh! And my goodness, what was the deal with her and Maire? We get to learn about one single plus size character in this story (who's not a lazy, old king), and it's basically just Briseis being confused and horrified as to why anyone would claim a FAT WOMAN as a slave. Maire is described at different times as "a lumpish girl whose eyebrows met in the middle," "the heavy, lumpen girl whose eyebrows met in the middle," "a silent, depressed lump," and "immensely fat, so fat she waddled when she walked." Briseis is shocked to find out Maire is pregnant because "pregnancy in fat women... is not as easy to spot as you might think." Girl, what?? For a book that's supposed to be uplifting the voices of women and telling their stories, you would think we wouldn't have run across such blatant fat-shaming. That genuinely put me off the rest of the book. Honestly, you could summarize this book with "Briseis is wandering around the camp and in and out of huts in close proximity to other women and Alcimus is never home but she does make sure she puts out wine and bread in case he decides to pop in and Pyrrhus like to drink and pet his horse and Cassandra is still crazy." The end.

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