The Silence of the Girls -

Pat Barker

Doubleday

2018

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 0385544219

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman--Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army.
When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and cooly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large.
Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war--the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead--all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations.

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5 (Perfeito)

Guerra de Tróia sem romantismo

Não sei nem direito o que escrever sobre esse livro. Em uma frase: foi um soco no na boca do estômago.
Aqui você não vai encontrar um conto romântico sobre a história da Guerra de Tróia. É a Ilíada contada pelo ponto de vista das mulheres de Tróia e das cidades nos arredores. É ficção, mas podia muito bem ser um livro acadêmico de História da Antiguidade.
Eu gostei muito de ler uma versão mais realista, menos romântica. Mas não acredito que esse livro seja pra todo mundo.
A autora não passa a mão na cabeça das personagens, nem dos leitores. Então, assim, se prepare se for ler, pois está cheio de gatilhos para violência e estupro.