BARKER PAT

ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟΙ ΞΑΝΑ
Η Πατ Μπάρκερ, βραβευμένη με το BOOKER PRIZE 1995, καταφέρνει το ακατόρθωτο: με βάση κάποια πραγματικά γεγονότα και πρόσωπα πλάθει μια ολοζώντανη ιστορία ενός- λόγω της χρονικής απόστασης- «παρωχημένου» πολέμου. Μέσα στην αγριότητα του πολέμου και σε αντίθεση με τις βάρβαρες ψυχιατρικές μεθόδους της εποχής, ένας προοδευτικός γιατρός αναλαμβάνει την επανένταξη των στρατιωτών που επιστρέφουνε με σοβαρές διαταραχές από το μέτωπο της Γαλλίας. Με γνήσια αντιπολεμικό πνεύμα, χωρίς να γίνεται ανακριβής όσον αφορά την ατμόσφαιρα αλλά και τις ιστορ...
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(P/B) THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS
Shorlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history's greatest epic When the Greek Queen Helen is kidnapped by Trojans, the Greeks sail in pursuit, besieging the city of Troy. Trapped in the Greek soldiers' camp is another captured queen, Briseis. Condemned to be bed-slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her family, she becomes a pawn in a menacing game between bored and frustrated warriors. In the ...
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Η ΣΙΩΠΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΙΩΝ
Δέκα χρόνια η πόλη της Τροίας αντέχει στην πολιορκία των ελληνικών στρατευμάτων. Το αίμα συνεχίζει να χύνεται για την Ωραία Ελένη. Μετά από πολεμικές επιχειρήσεις σε γειτονικές πόλεις, μια άλλη γυναίκα καταλήγει ως σκλάβα στο στρατόπεδο των πολιορκητών, η βασίλισσα της Λυρνησσού, η Βρισηίδα. Γίνεται παλλακίδα του πανίσχυρου Αχιλλέα, το τρόπαιο εκείνου που κατέστρεψε την πόλη της και σκότωσε τον σύζυγο και τα αδέρφια της μια από τις χιλιάδες αιχμάλωτες -τις ιερόδουλες, τις νοσοκόμες, τις γυναίκες που ετοιμάζουν τους νεκρούς για ταφή-, των ...
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Το μάτι στην πόρτα
Λονδίνο, Απρίλιος 1918. Πλησιάζει το τέλος του Πρώτου Παγκόσμιου Πολέμου, ενός από τους πιο αιματηρούς πολέμους στην ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας. Και ενώ στα πεδία των μαχών η νεολαία της Ευρώπης αποδεκατίζεται στα χαρακώματα, στα μετόπισθεν, στην πρωτεύουσα της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας, μαίνεται ένας άλλος πόλεμος με "κατασκευασμένους" εχθρούς, "στημένες" δίκες, ένα κανονικό κυνήγι μαγισσών με θύματα αυτή τη φορά τους ομοφυλόφιλους και τους ειρηνιστές στους οποίους χρεώνονται λίγο πολύ οι συμφορές αυτού του πολέμου. Πολυεπίπεδη ανάπλαση μιας ολόκλη...
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Ο ΔΡΟΜΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ
Ο ΔΡΟΜΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ είναι το τελευταίο μέρος της τριλογίας για τον Α' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο με το οποίο η Πάτ Μπάρκερ κέρδισε το βραβείο BOOKER 1995. Βασικοί ήρωες ο ποιητής Όουεν, ο αξιωματικός Μπίλυ Πράιορ, ο προοδευτικός ψυχίατρος Ουίλιαμ Ρίβερς και η ανάπηρη αδελφή του Κάθριν, που στα παιδικά της χρόνια υπήρξε φίλη του γνωστού συγγραφέα Λούις Κάρολ. Εδώ ο Ρίβερς ξαναζεί στη διάρκεια της αρρώστιας του την εποχή που βρισκόταν στη Μελανησία και μελετούσε ως ανθρωπολόγος τους κυνηγούς κεφαλών. Και ο Πράιορ, που έχει νοσηλευτεί μετά από σο...
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(P/B) The Voyage Home
The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death - and her own - while Ritsa is forced to bear witness...
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(P/B) LIFE CLASS
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists...
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(P/B) THE WOMEN OF TROY
Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, a...
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(P/B) THE WOMEN OF TROY
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy...
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(P/B) THE REGENARATION TRILOGY
The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper... Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed and admired, Pa...
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(P/B) THE GHOST ROAD
Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation...The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War. "An extraordinary tour de force. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE EYE IN THE DOOR
Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be...The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live ...
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(H/B) THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS
There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, 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? Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness history forgot. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) REGENERATION
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 ...
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WAR TALK
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THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE
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