In Pat Barker's Liza's England, Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century--whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. The tough, severe, but very real and recognizable world of women is...

* an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize von Barker, Pat

The Silence of the Girls von Barker, Pat

by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women von Barker, Pat

Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.'Taut, masterly, wholly absorbing. Still one of the greatest stories ever written. A...

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