The Eye in the Door

Resumen del libro

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 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 through it.

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.