PENGUIN The Silence of the Girls: From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration

Such a startling wonderful read.

Eine Geschichte über einen Krieg kann wohl nur grausam sein. Insoweit hätte mein Geschichtslehrer gesagt: "Nur für starke Nerven!" Lesenswert ist, wie die Autorin herausarbeitet, welche eigentlich sehr lächerlichen Gründe hinter dem ganzen Gemetzel stehen: Kindsköpfe, die wie kleine Jungs handeln, die sich im Sandkasten das Spielzeug wegnehmen wollen. Gerade heute ein sehr wichtiges Buch. Beim aktuellen Krieg in Europa dürfte es im Grunde kaum anders sein.

10/10 writing & well described emotions

Gripping, wonderful, well written Love it

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.” Such a good book, well written and never boring. I liked the way it was written and how it focused more on the Trojan war than The Song of Achilles did. The only negative thing I have to say is that it focused way to little on the women which the story was supposed to be about, or at least what I thought it was supposed about. I got the impression that this was going to show more deeply how the slave girls was treated and on a certain level there was but only though Briseis eyes. This book is about the main character Briseis and her relationship with Achilles as his bed-slave. This doesn’t necessarily make the book worse but I just find it strange that it’s supposed to be about the slave girls but are equally or even more about Achilles.

You know how you sometimes don't necessarily dislike the topic being written about but you just don't like the writing style? Well I really like this authors style. It's matter of fact and to the point, not overly flowery going for pages about feelings or filler. Easy to read and descriptive of the awfulness of being a slave in an enemy camp. Yes it's feminist perspective but it's almost written in a masculine leaning style if that makes sense. I loved it so much I got the second book.