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A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

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"With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of Circe Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences--for fans of Madeline Miller. This is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.…

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"In school, we read about the ancient Greeks: the fierce and clever Spartans who vanquished the Trojans. What brilliance to construct a horse – a GIFT – inside which brave warriors hid, waiting to ambush a kingdom and reclaim the beautiful Helen, whose face had launched a thousand ships – and thousands of sentences from mostly male writers ever since. In Natalie Haynes’ own brilliant construction, the 10-year tale of the Trojan War is retold by the many women ignored, widowed, enslaved, heartbroken and snuffed out by the pride and stupidity of warring men. Cassandra, Hecabe, Iphigenia, Penelope: They speak unfiltered. Muses and goddesses give their derisive takes as well. It is a fresh and utterly satisfying feminist take on one of the oldest stories in Western literature."
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