Penguin Books The Voyage Home

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Isbn: 9780241995679

author: pat barker

publisher: penguin books uk

language: english

binding: paperback

summary: the exhilarating follow-up to pat barker's the women of troy and the silence of the girls 'brilliant, masterful'. Barker, after ten blood-filled years, has stripped away the glittering armor of the myth' guardian. the war is over.

troy, as the victorious greek warriors fill their ships with the spoils of battle, lies in smoking ruins.

alongside the looted treasures are the many trojan women captured by the greeks - among them the legendary prophetess cassandra, and her vigilant maid, ritsa.

enslaved as a concubine - war-wife - to king agamemnon, cassandra is tormented by visions of his death - and her own - while ritsa is forced to bear witness to both cassandra's frenzies and the horrors to come.

bu arada, filenin dönüşünü bekleyen agamemnon'un intikamcı eşi klytemnestra kraliçesi.

heart-shattered by her husband's choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to troy, she has spent this long decade plotting revenge, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.

as one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of agamemnon's death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone's fates forever.

'the queen of literary historical fiction, barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient greece' nati*nal geogr*phic 'astonishingly fresh . Pat barker is one of the finest novelists working today' alice winn, author of in memoriam shortlisted for the anglo-hellenic league runciman award 2025

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