Informationen zum Autor Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties! when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women! she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later! she has published sixteen novels! including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy! been made a CBE for services to literature! and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour! the Booker Prize. Her last novel! The Silence of the Girls! began the story of Briseis! the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war stories ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize! and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham. Klappentext The great city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war over a stolen woman. In the Greek camp! another woman is watching and waiting: Briseis. She was a queen of this land until Achilles sacked her city and murdered her husband and sons. Now she is Achilles' concubine: a prize of battle. Briseis is just one among thousands of women backstage in this war - the slaves and prostitutes! the nurses! the women who lay out the dead - all of them voiceless in history. But! though no one knows it yet! they are just ten weeks away from the death of Achilles and the Fall of Troy! an end to this long and bitter conflict. Briseis will see it all - and she will bear witness. Zusammenfassung A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century Shorlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history's greatest epic 'Magnificent... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling! powerful! audacious... A searing twist on The Iliad . Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics! Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion' The Times 'A stunning return to form' Observer There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now... Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles! the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men! can she survive to become the author of her own story? Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness history forgot. 'Make[s] you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny! the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers ' Evening Standard Praise for Pat Barker: 'Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation ' Sunday Telegraph 'She is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature' Independent 'Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and an unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human' Herald 'You go to her for plain truths! a driving storyline and a clear eye! steadily facing the history of our world ' Guardian ...