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Another World

Autor Pat Barker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 1999
From the Booker Prize-winningand Women's Prize-shortlistedauthor ofThe Silence of the Girls

'Gripping in the best, most exquisite sense of the word'Mail on Sunday

'Utterly compelling... She is a novelist who probes deep, revealing what people prefer to keep hidden'Scotsman

'Extraordinary... Without question the best novel I have read this year' Daily Mail

'Brilliant touches of observation, an unfailing ear for dialogue... This is a novel that doesn't allow you to miss a sentence'New York Times Book Review

At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encroach on the present. As he and his wife Fran try to unite their uneasy family of step- and half-siblings, the discovery of a sinister Victorian drawing reveals the murderous history of their house and casts a violent shadow on their lives...
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140258981
ISBN-10: 0140258981
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing, she sent her fiction out. Thirty-five years later, she has published sixteen novels, including her masterfulRegenerationTrilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize.

Her last novel,The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019.The Women of Troycontinues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.