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Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780593414293 Pre-Order
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780385546690 Pre-Order
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780385546706 Pre-Order
Aug 24, 2021 | 600 Minutes Pre-Order
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Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780593414293
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780385546690
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780385546706
Aug 24, 2021 | ISBN 9780593408117
600 Minutes
From the Booker Prize-winning Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls (“An important, powerful, memorable book” –Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey) and the Regeneration Trilogy, a distinguished new entry in the boom in fiction recasting classical myths from a modern perspective.Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war–including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles’s mistress, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam’s aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow Your House Down, Liza’s England, The Man Who Wasn’t There, the Regeneration trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the Life Class trilogy (Life… More about Pat Barker
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