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    Troy
    Troy
    Troy
    Audiobook10 hours

    Troy

    Written by Adele Geras

    Narrated by Miriam Margolyes

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the gods keep watch.

    But Aphrodite, goddess of love, is bored with the endless, dreary war, and so she turns her attention to two sisters: Marpessa, who is gifted with god-sight and serves as handmaiden to Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world; and Xanthe, who is kind and loving and tends the wounded soldiers in the Blood Room. When Eros fits an arrow to his silver-lit bow and lets it fly, neither sister will escape its power.

    With vitality and grace, Adèle Geras breathes personality, heartbreak and humor into this classic story, told through the eyes of the women of Troy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 26, 2002
    ISBN9780807206003
    Troy
    Author

    Adele Geras

    ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and has published more than 80 titles. Ithaka was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Chirldren's Book Award. She lives in Manchester with her husband and has two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren.

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    • 4/5
      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.
    • 2/5
      I love anything that has to do with the Trojan War and this was an interesting take on the well known subject but it was just shy of boring.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      I started out a little hesitant about this story. I wasn't sure what I thought about the oh-so-human gods popping into the story, but it gradually wore on me until I really began to love this feature of the book. The characters (Helen, Paris, Hector, Aphrodite, Eros) are mostly familiar to me, though I'm not sure if some of the young people (Marpessa? Xanthe? Alastor?) were present in the original story. It's all well done, I think. The almost-Shakespearean romantic mixups between Marpessa and Alastor and Iason and Xanthe and Polyxena are intriguing and sad and tragic (I don't remember that being part of the original story either, but I could be mistaken) and the ongoing story of the Trojan War is riving. I think I like best how characters suddenly fall in love or act erratically and it's all because of the gods' interferences...certainly would be a good explanation for me for some of the crazy behavior I see in our world. Troy is that dark tragedy that only the Greeks do well.
    • 4/5
      The novel, Troy, encompasses the fight for survival when almost all hope is lost. In the beginning, Marpessa struggles with the on coming challenges that the endless war has offered. Throughout the middle, she perseveres through falling in love with the injured, beautiful soldier, Alastor, who her sister, Xanthe, is also coincidentally in love with. (262/348)
    • 3/5
      This book meant a lot to me when I was younger because it was the first real YA novel I read. Rather than condescending to me, it assumed I was old enough to handle a bit of sex, a bit of violence, and genuine moral dilemmas. And the moral dilemmas in this book are crazy- they're the kind that make your heart ache for every character, even the ones you really shouldn't feel any sympathy for.
    • 3/5
      Part love story, part war epic, this is the legend of Troy told through the eyes of the women in the city. Full of love, revenge and mischievous gods and all told in a flowing pose that grabbed my attention from the first page.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book! I normally can't become ingrossed in a mythology book (even though I love mythology) but this one just soared in 2 days. I personally want to read it again, although I finnished it last month. I especially love the random appearances of the gods (though, in sense of the book, they were not random at all) and how each gave the seer advanced information but then they forgot. The mysterious workings of the gods.