The Ghost Road

Resumen del libro

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation...

The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War.

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.