by Pat Barker · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670854899
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Pat Barker's 'The Ghost Road', winner of the 1995 Booker Prize, is the culmination of her trilogy about the First World War. Set in the final months of the war, it follows William Rivers, a psychologist treating traumatized soldiers, and Billy Prior, an officer returning to the front. Through their experiences, the novel explores the horrors of war, the psychological effects on soldiers, and the connections between different cultures and societies in times of conflict. Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, the novel offers a moving and transcendent vision of history.
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.
