by Pat Barker · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140236231
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«Regeneration» is Pat Barker's war novel, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Set in 1917, the novel follows military psychologist W.H.R. Rivers at Craiglockhart Hospital, where he treats poet Siegfried Sassoon, admitted for refusing to continue fighting. The plot combines real characters with fictional ones, such as soldier Billy Prior, and explores trauma, class, gender and identity.
The novel is the first instalment of the Regeneration trilogy, completed by The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road. Pat Barker was awarded the Booker Prize in 1995.
It is suitable for readers of historical fiction interested in the psychological impact of war and in figures such as poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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.
