by Pat Barker · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140168785
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«The Eye in the Door» is Pat Barker's historical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In the London of 1918, Billy Prior is an intelligence officer pursuing the internal enemy, though his relationships with pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals clash with his military duty. His identity fragments and he returns to consult psychiatrist William Rivers, in a plot that weaves in Siegfried Sassoon and examines the contradictions of war.
Second novel of the Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction interested in the psychological cost of World War I and the social repression of the era.
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.
