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.

The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.

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.

'[A] brilliant novel...at its centre is a real-life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W.H.R. Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sassoon...Intense and subtle, getting responsively under the skin of both real and imagined characters, Regeneration is receptive to all aspects of the era - and the heroes - it resurrects' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times