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Loading... Troy (2000)by Adèle Geras
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A retelling of the fall of Troy as a YA romance? It sounds kind of awful, but it sort of works. I liked it, at any rate. Geras is quite faithful to the original myths, and I love her take on the gods and how their interactions with mortals work. ( ) This book tells the story of the end of the Trojan War, focusing on two sisters, young servant girls that work for Hector's family. Xanthe and Marpessa are sisters who thanks to Aphrodite's meddling are in love with the same boy. We also follow a bunch of other minor towns folk including three elderly serving women, Iason (in love w/ Xanthe) and Polyxena (the singers granddaughter, friends w/ the sisters, in love with Iason). It's interesting to see the girls personal problems against the back drop of the larger issues of the war. The war is followed and you see what parts don't affect them. There are many myths interspersed in the story in a very natural way. You also get to see some larger then life characters very humanized. I really liked the language as well. The whole story was just beautifully written. I absolutely loved it. This book tells the story of the end of the Trojan War, focusing on two sisters, young servant girls that work for Hector's family. Xanthe and Marpessa are sisters who thanks to Aphrodite's meddling are in love with the same boy. We also follow a bunch of other minor towns folk including three elderly serving women, Iason (in love w/ Xanthe) and Polyxena (the singers granddaughter, friends w/ the sisters, in love with Iason). It's interesting to see the girls personal problems against the back drop of the larger issues of the war. The war is followed and you see what parts don't affect them. There are many myths interspersed in the story in a very natural way. You also get to see some larger then life characters very humanized. I really liked the language as well. The whole story was just beautifully written. I absolutely loved it. This book tells the story of the end of the Trojan War, focusing on two sisters, young servant girls that work for Hector's family. Xanthe and Marpessa are sisters who thanks to Aphrodite's meddling are in love with the same boy. We also follow a bunch of other minor towns folk including three elderly serving women, Iason (in love w/ Xanthe) and Polyxena (the singers granddaughter, friends w/ the sisters, in love with Iason). It's interesting to see the girls personal problems against the back drop of the larger issues of the war. The war is followed and you see what parts don't affect them. There are many myths interspersed in the story in a very natural way. You also get to see some larger then life characters very humanized. I really liked the language as well. The whole story was just beautifully written. I absolutely loved it.
"With exceptional grace and enormous energy, Geras (The Tower Room; Pictures of the Night) recreates the saga of the Trojan war from a feminist perspective, by delving into the hearts and minds of the women behind the scenes." Belongs to SeriesTrojan Saga (1) AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up. No library descriptions found. |
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