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Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2018 by Pat Barker  \nAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2018.  \n[doubleday.com](doubleday.com)  \nDOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of  \nPenguin Random House LLC.  \nExcerpt from The Human Stain by Philip Roth. Copyright © 2000, Philip Roth. Published by Jonathan Cape, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited, The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights  \nreserved.  \nCover design by Emily Mahon  \nCover illustration: Engraving by Louis Charles Ruotte, drawn by François Gédéon Reverdin, nineteenth century, after an antique sculpture at the Vatican Museums.  \nBibliothèque Nationale. akg-images  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Barker, Pat, 1943– author.  \nTitle: The silence of the girls : a novel / Pat Barker. Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2018014387 (print) | LCCN 2018015358 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385544214  \n(hardcover) | ISBN 9780385544221 (ebook)  \nSubjects: LCSH: Trojan War—Fiction. | Troy (Extinct city)—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / War & Military. | GSAFD: Historical fiction. |  \nWar stories.  \nClassification: LCC PR6052.A6488 (ebook) | LCC PR6052.A6488 S55 2018 (print) | DDC  \n823/.914—dc23  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018014387](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018014387)[ ](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018014387)Ebook ISBN 9780385544221  \nv5.3.2  \nep  \nContents  \nCover  \nAlso by Pat Barker  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nEpigraph  \nPart One Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nPart Two Chapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nPart Three Chapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nChapter 41  \nChapter 42  \nChapter 43  \nChapter 44  \nChapter 45  \nChapter 46  \nChapter 47  \nAuthor’s Note About the Author  \nFor my children, John and Anna; and, as always, in loving memory of David  \n“You know how European literature begins?” he’d ask, after taking the roll at the first class meeting.“With a quarrel. All of European literature springs from a fight.”And then he picked up his copy of TheIliad and read to the class the opening lines.“‘Divine Muse, sing of the ruinous wrath of Achilles…Begin where they first quarrelled, Agamemnon, the King of men, and great Achilles.’ And what are they quarrelling about, these two violent, mighty souls? It’s as basic as a barroom brawl. They are quarrelling over a woman. A girl, really. A girl stolen from her father. A girl abducted in a war.”  \n—The Human Stain, Philip Roth  \nPART ONE","cbCaibiMp6XubDOu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibiMp6XubDOu","pdf",3083590,298,"English","# Contents\n## Part One\n## Part Two\n## Part Three\n## Author’s Note\n## About the Author","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of The Silence of the Girls?\",\"answer\":\"Pat Barker is the author.\"},{\"question\":\"What epigraph is included in the book?\",\"answer\":\"The epigraph quotes lines from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the novel organized structurally?\",\"answer\":\"The table of contents divides the work into three parts, each containing multiple chapters.\"}]","The Silence of the Girls - Chapter 1 - excerpt | PDF",1789949254,459]