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theatomicblonde22 's review for:
The Women of Troy
by Pat Barker
This follow up to 2019's The Silence of the Girls was about as depressing and bleak as you might expect. Set in the months following the sack of Troy, the Greeks are trapped on the Trojan beach by prevailing winds. The women of Troy's royal household, as well as our returning heroine Briseis, spend the next few months in squalor, enslavement, and in constant fear of the Greeks as well as the new arrival: Neoptolemus, the young son of Achilles.
I personally did not find this sequel as compelling as the first book, but the source material seems to be Euripides' play The Trojan Women.
There was a line that struck me though, towards the end of the novel. Briseis, reflecting on Queen Hecuba's participation in her husband Priam's funeral: "'Cause isn't that, ultimately, the way we cope with grief? There's nothing sophisticated or civilized about it. Like savages, we ingest our dead."
I personally did not find this sequel as compelling as the first book, but the source material seems to be Euripides' play The Trojan Women.
There was a line that struck me though, towards the end of the novel. Briseis, reflecting on Queen Hecuba's participation in her husband Priam's funeral: "'Cause isn't that, ultimately, the way we cope with grief? There's nothing sophisticated or civilized about it. Like savages, we ingest our dead."