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About The Silence Of The Girls: A Novel
Product Description A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again. Review "Almost Homeric in its brilliance... Refreshingly modern... Ms Barker [switches] nimbly between the daily drudgery of the camp and the horrors of conflict... Venerable scenes and mythic names magically become new... Domestic details are piercingly described, bringing the squalor of the camp to life... A masterful and moving novel." — The Economist "Beautifully done." —Annalissa Quinn, NPR “Well-written as anything Barker has done before… The Silence of the Girls is a novel that allows those who were dismissed as girls—the women trapped in a celebrated historical war—to speak, to be heard, to bear witness. In doing so, Barker has once again written something surprising and eloquent that speaks to our times while describing those long gone.” —Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post"A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan War from the point of view of the women." —Kate Atkinson, New York Times Book Review “An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist…Why isn’t Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls on this year’s Man Booker longlist? There are always going to be contentious omissions, I know, but Barker’s not only a veteran—she won in 1995 for The Ghost Road, the final volume of her magnificent First World War-set Regeneration trilogy—this latest work is an impressive feat of literary revisionism that reminds us that there are as many ways to tell a story as there are people involved…this is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men: ‘the brutal reality of conquest and slavery.’ In seeing a legend differently, Barker also makes us re-think history.” —Lucy Scholes, The Independent"Evocative... The powerful story line is merely the framework; what make this novel so fascinating are all the interstitial details." —John Greenya, The Washington Times "This is an important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societies. 'The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.' Barker's novel is an invitation to tell those forgotten stories, and to listen for voices silenced by history and power." —Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey "Brilliant, beautifully written... Both lyrical and brutal, Barker's novel is not to savor delicately." — Library Journal, starred review “In The Silence of the Girls, [Barker] now gives a voice to the voiceless…It is not generally known that the omission of Pat Barker’s Regeneration from the 1991 Booker shortlist by the all-male panel of judges was the trigger for the foundation of the Orange (now Women’s) Prize. Barker’s omission from this year’s Booker longlist is a decision equally lamentable, for The Silence of the Girls is a book that will be read in generations to come.” —Amanda Craig, Daily
