{"product_id":"the-women-of-troy-9780593311325","title":"The Women of Troy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring and timely feminist retelling of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003efrom the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to\u003ci\u003e The Silence of the Girls \u003c\/i\u003efrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLargely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave,","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403203715415,"sku":"9780593311325","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593311325.jpg?v=1730482748","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-women-of-troy-9780593311325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}