6/21/2023 0 Comments The women of troy pat barker![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stories, songs, music: these are common motifs in The Silence of the Girls, but it is Achilles who is most associated with them. I was angry, I was grieving, but somehow that didn’t matter. Because, make no mistake, this was his story - his anger, his grief, his story. Looking back, it seemed to me I’d been trying to escape not just from the camp, but from Achilles’s story and I’d failed. As a slave of war, Briseis has little agency in the novel: The Silence of the Girls primarily retells the events of The Iliad from the point of view of Briseis, with the exception that the beginning of the novel and its end extend Briseis’ narrative beyond the limits of the original But as the last sentence of the novel suggests, despite its feminist agenda, The Silence of the Girls is not primarily Briseis’s story, but Achilles’s. The second book in the series, The Women of Troy, was published in 2021, and the trilogy is due to be completed next year (2024) with the publication of The Voyage Home. The Silence of the Girls is the first book in what will eventually be the Women of Troy Trilogy. ![]()
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