Exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's Women of Troy a Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, war is over. Troy lies v fajčenie zrúcaniny a victorious greeks fill ich loptičky s spojmi battle.Vzhľadom na treasures looted are mnoho trójskych žen zachytil by greeks - medzi tými legendárnou prophetess Cassandra, a jej sledované maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - do King Agamemnon, Cassandra je plagued po vizi jeho death - a jej own - while Ritsa je zaistený medveď witness to bot Cassandra frenzies a horrors to come.Meanwhile , awaiting Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnón. Heart-shattered by jej husband's choice to sacrifice ich eldest dcéra do bôbov v exchange pre víla na troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, v paláci haunted by child- ghosts.As one wife journey súvisí s pohľadom na Agamemnon death, jeden thing je certain: this long-awaited homecoming bude zmenšiť everyone's fates forever . chronicler vojny, ale ľudskej prírody' Independent'Barker je píšťalka kriminality a clarity a unflinching seeker germom, čo sa mení na ľuďom Herald'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a , steadily priblížil históriu nášho sveta' Guardian