The Silence of the Girls [Audiobook] download free by Pat Barker
- Listen audiobook: The Silence of the Girls
- Author: Pat Barker
- Release date: 2018/7/4
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780241338070
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 624
- Review by: Esperanza Jessup
- Review rating: 8.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 4H14M51S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, WAV, WavPack, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, MPC (compression LZO, ACE, 7-ZIP, JAR, ARJ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M37S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women' Kate Atkinson There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, 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?Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness history forgot.'Make[s] you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening StandardPraise for Pat Barker:'Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation' Sunday Telegraph'She is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature' Independent'Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and an unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human' Herald'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world' Guardian
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Myth & Legend Told As Fiction, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Science Fiction
- Download servers: 4Shared, MEGA, Firedrop, Microsoft OneDrive, BitShare, CmisSync, Hotfile, Mediafire. Compressed in LZO, ACE, 7-ZIP, JAR, ARJ, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.56 USD
- Dimensions: 162x240x32mm
- Weight: 555g
- Printed by: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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