TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Pat
TI  - The women of Troy
SN  - 9780241427231 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR6052.A6488 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - UK
PB  - Hamish Hamilton
KW  - Briseis,
KW  - Trojan War
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Ancient World
KW  - thema
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - c 1000 CE to c 1500
KW  - Myth & legend told as fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Troy (Extinct city)
KW  - lcsh
N2  - Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naive Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge
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