It does not come, because the gods are offended. 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. It just becomes irritating.A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it-an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy. She also doesn’t seem to open her mouth wide enough so things sound flattened and dead as she simultaneously tries to add the widest range of inflection possible. Obviously it’s good to bring a story to life but I think a first person narration should be more subtle and suited to the character speaking. She seeks grandeur and meaning in every phrase and it’s so noticeably over the top it’s hard to ignore and become immersed in the story. I’ve not looked her up but her style is perhaps more suited to the stage than book narration. The voice acting here is Overly Dramatic. Perhaps we’re meant to believe Brisëis has internalised misogyny or something but it just reads poorly. It’s a lazy description using a tired trope - just one example. This is more reminiscent of writers such as Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie or Roald Dhal rather than a lauded 21st century writing. “a lumpish girl whose eyebrows met in the middle”. I agree with another reviewer who noted outdated/sexist descriptions of women e.g. The main narrator isn’t particularly sympathetic and the situation post downfall of Troy isn’t presented as being particularly compelling. However I’m not sure what Barker was aiming for here.
I really enjoyed Silence of the Girls and the Regeneration series. No clear plot and overly affected narration Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous. 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.
Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. 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. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.īut the wind does not come. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. Following her best-selling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
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