Regeneration

Resumen del libro

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 war brutalised a generation of young men.

Biografía del autor

Pat Barker (Thornaby-on-Tees, Inglaterra, 1943) se inició en la escritura en 1982 tras participar en un taller impartido por la distinguida novelista Angela Carter. Desde entonces ha publicado quince novelas x{0026} x02014;entre las que cabe destacar su famosa trilogía sobre la Primera Guerra Mundialx{0026} x02014; que la han convertido en uno de los referentes inexcusables de la narrativa británica contemporánea. Su obra, traducida a varios idiomas, ha sido merecedora de numerosos galardones, incluido el premio Booker en 1995.