Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. 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. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.īut the wind does not come. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
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