Tras diez sangrientos años, la guerra ha terminado. Troya es solo un montón de ruinas humeantes, y los victoriosos griegos llenan sus barcos con los frutos del saqueo. Entre ellos, las mujeres capturadas, como la profetisa Casandra ?ahora...
Helena y su inigualable belleza, que resultó ser solo un hueso que los perros rabiosos se disputan; Casandra, cuyas profecías nadie atiende a menos que un varón las enuncie; la obcecada Amina, con la mirada fija en las ruinas, decidid...
«Las que restañaron la sangre de las heridas y embalsamaron a los muertos, las que dentro y fuera de los muros proveyeron de vestido y alimento a los combatientes, las mismas que fueron presa, botín y moneda de cambio, todas a quienes...
The book was written to inspire thoughts and ideas on what you could do with your day out of school. It is for children, parents, and teachers to imagine your own ideas for the perfect day. So many things to do and see!
Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his...
Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his...
Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls , Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured itâan extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and &aci...
Here is the story of the Iliad as weâve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homerâs epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a...
There 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 . .
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing, the basis for the major motion picture The Drowning, portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland.
The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart
An anthology of Virago authors with every year of the 20th century represented, this volume aims to gather all the energies and circumstances of 20th-century women writers into the one book, swinging from one end to the other of 100 years of history and...