![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Medusa” takes place in Florence and concerns an art student named Erin, who is there preparing for an exhibition. However, this story does not take us to the actual time or place of the Greek myth that gives the story its title. And now we get a story entitled “Medusa.” The Silence of the Girls was an account of the Iliad from the perspective (mostly) of Briseis, the woman Achilles and Agamemnon fought over in a feud that led to the events Homer laid down over 2500 years ago (and this book was one of my favorites of last year - see my review here). Pat Barker has deftly chronicled individual trauma of World War I, but it seems that with her most recent novel, The Silence of the Girls, she has started a new phase that goes back much further. ![]()
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