Edith van Dijk Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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.

Barker's brilliant antiwar novel Regeneration was widely hailed as a masterpiece. Now she returns to the World War I era with another exceptional novel. As the war draws to its close, English patriotism strikes at pacifists, homosexuals and suffragists, threatening to destroy the very fabric of society.

In a World War I British military hospital, a pacifist soldier and his doctor grapple with the outrage of war. By the author of Union Street. Reprint.