by Pat Barker · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140123081
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«Regeneration» is the historical novel by Pat Barker, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Set in 1917 at Craiglockhart military hospital, the novel follows Doctor William Rivers treating officers with war neurosis. The arrival of poet Siegfried Sassoon, admitted after protesting against the conflict, turns their relationship into the axis of a reflection on trauma, memory, and the psychological cost of war.
First installment of Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, completed with The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road.
Aimed at readers of historical and literary fiction, particularly those interested in the First World War and its psychological aftermath.
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
