{"product_id":"the-women-of-troy-by-pat-barker","title":"The Women of Troy By Pat Barker","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring and timely feminist retelling of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom the Booker Prize-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Regeneration Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTroy 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLargely 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47513824887004,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47513824919772,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/5_d92c2713-3cae-4f32-a138-f331027a234c.png?v=1769787820","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/the-women-of-troy-by-pat-barker","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}