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There seems to be a fashion for retelling the story of Troy these days, at least I'm reading a lot of those. This is the fall of Troy from the women's point of view, and with no Trojan horse. It's a (mostly) first-person telling by Briseis, Achilles' prize after the sacking of Lyrnessus, Achilles who murdered her husband and brothers. Her narrative is sometimes interrupted by a third person narrator, which I found a bit jolting--where this did new voice come from? The end leaves an opening for a
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