{"product_id":"the-silence-of-the-girls","title":"The Silence Of The Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing twist on \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e... Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... \u003cb\u003eChilling, powerful, audacious\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning return to form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls \u003c\/i\u003eshows that 36 years after her first novel was published, \u003cb\u003eBarker is a writer at the peak of her powers\u003c\/b\u003eIts magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... \u003cb\u003eYou are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn assured triumph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eimportant, powerful, memorable book\u003c\/b\u003e that invites us to look differently not only at \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred play out in our societiesShe gives a voice to the voiceless...\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will be read in generations to come\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impressive feat of literary revisionism \u003c\/b\u003ethat should be on the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men... \u003cb\u003eBarker makes us re-think history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of imagination that succeeds in being relevant today\u003c\/b\u003eThe most important novel based on \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eso far this centuryThe magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of \u003cb\u003egiving silenced women a voice at the centre of the story\u003c\/b\u003e is just as relevant today[Pat Barker] is \u003cb\u003eone of our finest modern chroniclers of war\u003c\/b\u003e...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's founding conflicts\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chilling, powerful, audacious' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBriseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER'S \u003ci\u003eCIRCE\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTHE SONG OF ACHILLES\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the \u003cu\u003eWomen's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/u\u003e and the \u003cu\u003eCosta Novel Award\u003c\/u\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Troy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crosswordbooks.uae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137683198027,"sku":"BK0006214","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/4877\/3707\/files\/getimage_4f57ec61-a0bd-4d71-8d6e-cdb3ba7e4ad9.jpg?v=1770798352","url":"https:\/\/crosswordbooks.ae\/products\/the-silence-of-the-girls","provider":"Crossword Dubai","version":"1.0","type":"link"}