The Silence Of The Girls
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The Silence Of The Girls
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Author : Pat Barker
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-09-04
The Silence Of The Girls written by Pat Barker and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with Fiction categories.
A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
The Women Of Troy
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Author : Pat Barker
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2021-08-24
The Women Of Troy written by Pat Barker and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Fiction categories.
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 and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). 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. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
The Silence Of The Girls
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Author : Pat Barker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-08-30
The Silence Of The Girls written by Pat Barker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Fiction categories.
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 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 . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story? PERFECT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER'S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES. *Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award* Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.
Regeneration
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Author : Pat Barker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Regeneration written by Pat Barker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Fiction categories.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection The modern classic of contemporary war fiction - a Man Booker Prize-nominated examination of World War I and its deep legacy of human traumas. 'A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. This is the first novel in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy: I: Regeneration II: The Eye in the Door III: The Ghost Road 'A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War and a multi-layered exploration of all wars. A fine anthem for doomed youth' Time Out 'A novel of tremendous power' Margaret Forster 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian
All Of You Every Single One
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Author : Beatrice Hitchman
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2021-08-05
All Of You Every Single One written by Beatrice Hitchman and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2022 'The exquisite story of two women trying to make a life together in wartime Austria, and all the love, friendship and danger that implies.' Sophie Ward All of You Every Single One is an epic novel about family, freedom and how true love might survive impossible odds. When Julia flees her unhappy marriage for the handsome tailor Eve Perret, she expects her life from now on will be a challenge, not least because the year is 1911. They leave everything behind to settle in Vienna, but their happiness is increasingly diminished by Julia's longing for a child. Ada Bauer's wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr Freud in the hope that he can fix her mutism and do so without a scandal. But help will soon come for Ada from an unexpected quarter and change many lives irrevocably.
Summer On The Cold War Planet
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Author : Paula Closson Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-10
Summer On The Cold War Planet written by Paula Closson Buck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-10 with Fiction categories.
The summer before the Berlin Wall collapses, a young American art histo- rian whose husband has disappeared returns to the divided city seeking truths she believes he might have kept from her. There, she falls again under the spell of an exiled East German artist whose stories of Greek mystics once made him as irresistible as he was forbidding. In this novel of conflicting allegiances played out between a richly realized late Cold War Berlin and the stark beauty of the Cycladic islands, travellers, natives, and refugees circle one another warily, their fates hanging on the question of which trusts if any, will remain unviolated.
City Of Incurable Women
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Author : Maud Casey
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2022-02-22
City Of Incurable Women written by Maud Casey and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Fiction categories.
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored “City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through “Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.
The Silence Of Sisters
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Author : Elise Sharron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-11-05
The Silence Of Sisters written by Elise Sharron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with categories.
When sisters to Tameka and Tessa are born the world did not stand on its feet and applaud them. For these girls who were from the moment of conception unwanted their lives became out sticking together and figuring out how to stay alive at the abusive hands of their mother and father. The two decide that, as twins they should have their own language, something that made them different but also a way for them to escape into a world where only the two of them existed and everything was okay. After suffering years of abuse the girls find themselves out on the streets and desperate. The decide that robbing and hustling like their parents did would be the only way but when petty crimes turn into bank heists the girls make the ultimate sacrifice promising that if they get caught they would both stay silent until one of them dies. On this day we watch the reflection as Tameka speaks for the first time after years of incarceration because on this day she finds out that her sister has died in prison. To hear the woman give the accounts of their childhood while loving and supporting her sister every step of the way it shines a light on the human ability to endure pain while also capturing the humanity of our most simplistic emotion, love. The sisters held up their promise to each other and when Tameka finally does speak, everyone will listen.
Perempuan Perempuan Kelu The Silence Of The Girls
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Author : Pat Barker
language : id
Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Release Date : 2020-08-03
Perempuan Perempuan Kelu The Silence Of The Girls written by Pat Barker and has been published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Di jantung perang Troya, ada suara perempuan yang selama ini dibungkamÉ hingga sekarang. Briseis adalah ratu Lyrnessus hingga suatu hari kotanya diluluhlantakkan oleh pasukan Yunani. Kini ia menjadi budak Achilles, pria yang telah membunuh suami dan saudarasaudara lelakinya. Dongeng klasik Iliad dikisahkan kembali dari sudut pandang Briseis, yang hanya sedikit disebut-sebut meskipun perannya sangat menentukan. Dalam Perempuan-Perempuan Kelu, Brises mekar, hidup, menjadi sosok yang nyata: pengamatannya tajam, kepedihannya dipendam, dan ia menjalin hubungan dengan para budak perempuan lain yang menjadi pelacur, perawat, petugas yang memandikan mayat, dan kurban darah. Kisahnya mengungkap apa yang selama ini tidak tampak atau tidak dianggap penting dalam kisah kepahlawanan Iliad, memberi kan suara kepada seorang perempuan luar biasaÑmemberi kita cara pandang baru dalam membaca kisah kuno ini. Novel ini menjadi finalis WomenÕs Prize for Fiction
The Silence Of The Lambs
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Author : Yvonne Tasker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Silence Of The Lambs written by Yvonne Tasker and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating 'Buffalo Bill', a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer and former psychiatrist who assists Starling in exchange for personal details. With its pairing of a perverse, invasive anti-hero and a questing, proto-action heroine, The Silence of the Lambs unfolds as a layered narrative of pursuit. In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the film's weaving together of gothic, horror and thriller elements in its portrayal of insanity and crime, drawing out the centrality of ideas about gender to the storytelling. She identifies the film as a key genre reference point for tracking late twentieth century interests in police procedural, profiling and serial murder, analysing its key themes of reason and madness, identity and belonging, aspiration and transformation. A new afterword explores the legacies of The Silence of the Lambs and its figuring of crime and investigation in terms of gender disruption and spectacular violence.