Description
An NPR Best Book of the Year
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.
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, A Thousand Ships is a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in it. This is not the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever changed by this long and tragic war. A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told.
