Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls(Women of Troy #3)-沉默的女孩们

入选《华盛顿邮报》2018年年度五十大好书，NPR2018年年度最佳图书，《名利场》2018年秋季最佳图书，布克奖获奖作家帕特·巴克（Pat Barker）新作。

取材不朽名篇《伊利亚特》，巴克从阿喀琉斯女奴布里塞伊斯的视角重现特洛伊之战。在故事中，布里塞伊斯作为俘虏被带到了希腊城邦，随后又成了希腊第一勇士和联军首领争夺的对象。布里塞伊斯只是生活在这场战争幕后的成千上万的女性中的一名——还有许许多多的奴隶，妓女，护士，安置死者的妇女，她们都被历史一笔带过。

作者凭借精妙的写作技巧和历史细节，将神话中那些熟悉的人物进行细致入微的刻画，并且重新发现这些历史背后的意义，让人叹为观止。

书名：The Silence of the Girls(Women of Troy #3)《沉默的女孩们》

作者：Pat Barker

简介：The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which continues to wage bloody war over a stolen woman—Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman—Briseis—watches and waits for the war's outcome. 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 coolly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position, able to observe the two men driving the Greek army 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. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives—and it is nothing short of magnificent.