Elinor und Toby sind Schwester und Bruder, Freunde und engste Vertraute. Im Jahrhundertsommer 1912 verbringen sie eine Nacht gemeinsam in Tobys Zimmer. Ihr Geheimnis nimmt Elinor später mit an die Slade School of Fine Art in London, wo...

The Women of Troy von Barker, Pat

"The Silence of the Girls" von Pat Barker ist eine Neuerzählung der Ilias aus der Perspektive von Briseis, einer Königstochter, die zur Sklavin und Trophäe des griechischen Helden Achilles wurde. Das Buch beleuchtet die oft übersehene...

London, 1918. 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...

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 and exploring the lives of working class women, she...

* An early novel by one of England's most important contemporary novelists. von Barker, Pat

Life Class von Barker, Pat

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 and exploring the lives of working class women, she...

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 and exploring the lives of working class women, she...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in...

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 and exploring the lives of working class women, she...

Troja ist gefallen. Die Griechen haben ihren bitteren Krieg gewonnen und könnten als Sieger nach Hause zurückkehren. Alles, was sie brauchen, ist ein guter Wind, um ihre Segel zu setzen. Aber der Wind kommt nicht. Die Götter sind erzürnt...