The Voyage Home av Pat Barker

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<p><b>The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker''s <i>The Women of Troy </i>and <i>The Silence of the Girls </i></b><br><br>After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.<br><br>Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks ¿ among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine ¿ war-wife ¿ to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death ¿ and her own ¿ while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra¿s frenzies and the horrors to come.<br><br>Meanwhile, awaiting the fleet¿s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband¿s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.<br><br>As one wife journeys toward the other, unit