The women of Troy

Pat Barker


Engels | 08-09-2021 | 320 pagina's

9780241427248

Paperback / softback


€ 18,95

 Voorraad in de winkel
   Bestelbaar

   Retour mogelijk, zie onze algemene voorwaarden onder punt 4

   Levering binnen België: 6,95 euro - gratis levering vanaf 55 euro / naar Nederland: 8,95 euro




Tekst achterflap

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.

But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.

Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...

Beschrijving

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.

But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.

Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...

Details

EAN :9780241427248
Auteur: 
Uitgever :Penguin Group
Publicatie datum :  08-09-2021
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Hoogte :240 mm
Breedte :156 mm
Gewicht :400 gr
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :320
Keywords :  romans;grieks-romeinse mythologie;trojaanse oorlog;oorlog en vrouwen;mythen sagen en legenden