Following hier bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues hier extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns na Homer v tejto gory ale unexpectedly uplifting novel Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The Greeks haw won their bitter war. Tieto môžu return home as victors - všetky tieto potrebujú je dobré vetrať k lift ich plachty. Ale vietor má vanished, more boli prepustené venkovských bôbov, a tak sa bojovníkmi nachádza v limbo - táborí v tieni mesta, ktorý bol destroyed, keptová spoločnosť by ženy želania stola z neho. The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - a she bol just a mouldy starý kôň pre feral pes na boj nad. Cassandra, ktorý má learned no to to to attached to her own prophecies. Tieto majú len jednu chvíľu tie, keď sa môže dostať a človek to deliver them. Stubborn Amina, s jeho gaze stále fixovaný na ruinované veže z Troy, determined to avenge slaughter of her king. Hecuba, howling and clawing jej cheeks na silnom brehu, as aj she could make jej cries heard v gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead. And Briseis, carrying jej future in jej womb: the unborn dieťa z dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again postavený s chance to shape history. Šikovné a enduringly resonant, ambitious a intimate, Ženy z Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling jedného z našich veľkých klasických myths, following on z critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls.