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De trilogie "Weg der geesten" is een van de meest indrukwekkende en hartverscheurende anti-oorlogsromans ooit. De loopgraven van de Eerste Wereldoorlog leiden de lezer van het slagveld naar een psychiatrische inrichting, waar twee slachtoffers van een "shell-shock", Siegfried Sassoon en Wilfred Owen, in behandeling zijn bij Dr. Rivers. Ook officier Billy Prior is patiënt geweest bij Dr. Rivers en hij zoekt weer hulp bij de dokter als hij last krijgt van geheugenverlies.

In augustus 1918 wordt een driemaal gewonde Britse luitenant teruggestuurd naar het front in Frankrijk, waar hij vlak voor de wapenstilstand nog moet deelnemen aan een zinloze operatie.

De 84 jarige Liza Jarret woont nog als enige in de verarmde afbraakbuurt. Buurthuiswerker Stephen moet haar zover zien te krijgen dat ze naar een bejaardenhuis vertrekt Beetje bij beetje vertelt Liza hem haar levensverhaal en Stephen - gedesillusioneerd in zijn idealen- krijgt een diep respect voor deze vrouw, wier veerkracht hem helpt in een moeilijke periode in zijn leven

An alternate cover edition can be found here.As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.

Pat Barker's acclaimed antiwar novel returns to the World War I era in a gripping narrative set in the spring of 1918. As a massive German offensive looms over the English army, the government and a panicked public seek scapegoats, targeting pacifists and homosexuals. Many face persecution, with some jailed and others living in fear. The phrase "the eye in the door" symbolizes the paranoia threatening British society. Central to the story is Lieutenant Billy Prior, recently released from treatment for shell shock by psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers. Assigned to a domestic Intelligence unit in London, he must investigate a female pacifist accused of plotting an assassination—a woman who raised him and now accuses him of betrayal. Complicating matters, Prior has had a passionate encounter with Charles Manning, an upper-class officer whose social standing offers him some protection against the dangers of being exposed as a homosexual. Billy Prior embodies the conflict of a working-class man elevated to officer status, a soldier haunted by war yet loyal to his comrades, and a bisexual struggling with his identity. As he navigates these challenges, the author crafts a vivid portrayal of a society grappling with the horrors of war and the search for honor and truth amid personal turmoil.

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story? THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER'S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES! *Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award* Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers�s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients� minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front � Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the Regeneration trilogy

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROYContinuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra -- daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.

Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville first met in 1914 at the Slade School of Art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even turned to seances in an attempt to contact lost loved ones. As the bombs fall and Elinor and the others struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want ...