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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: silence of the girls
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Barker, Pat
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Historical fiction.
  genre: War fiction.
  genre: Mythological fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 293 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman, Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome, Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and cooly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large. Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war, the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead, all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its…
  note: Pat Barker.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
  subject:
    topic: Trojan War
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Troy (Extinct city)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / War & Military
  classification: PR6052.A6488 S55 2018
  classification: 823/.914
  identifier: 9780385544214
  identifier: 0385544219
  identifier: 2018014387
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180327
    record change date: 20190122115909.0
    record identifier: in00004003388