Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks,this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra - daughter of King Priam,priestess of Apollo,and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo,after he has kissed her,granting her the gift of true prophecy,he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)
Psychologically complex and dangerously driven,Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events,drawing in King Agamemnon,his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined,and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241568248Number of pages: 336Dimensions: 240 x 156 mm
Pat Barker
Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy - climaxing with the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road of 1995 - pushed her to front rank of British historical novelists. Brilliantly fusing an almost unparalleled level of veracity with a profound understanding of story and allusion,almost single-handedly Barker elevated the concept of the historical novel to the literary. Subsequently,Barker has rounded on a number of other themes,including the exploration of morality and children in the uncompromising Border Crossing and the exceptional,pan-Second World War narrative cycle of Life Class,Toby's Room and Noonday.
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