Edith van Dijk Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

An author's life is turned upside-down when her beloved oldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a corner wearing a sign that only says "goodness."

Including all three novels in one volume, "Regeneration", "The Eye in the Door" and "The Ghost Road". The trilogy explores with gritty realism the whole dirty, glorious and horrifying business of war.

Winner of the American Book AwardBased on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

An alternate cover edition can be found here.As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

Una vera storia d’amore sullo sfondo della città canadese di Winnipeg. Due protagonisti insoliti e complessi come ciascuno di noi: Fay, trentacinquenne studiosa di tradizioni popolari con la passione per le sirene, all’apparenza incapace di avere una relazione stabile; Tom, famoso conduttore di un programma radiofonico, 40 anni e già tre matrimoni falliti alle spalle. Solo Carol Shields poteva descrivere con ironia e delicatezza quest’uomo e questa donna che si innamorano follemente, spingendosi anche in territori più pericolosi, dove entrano in gioco la singolarità del desiderio, la forza e la fragilità dei legami affettivi, la libertà di scelta degli amanti alle prese con il loro amore, con la famiglia e la società. Il risultato è un romanzo emozionante e pieno di fascino.

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. The first book in the Regeneration trilogy