New Releases by Pat Barker

Twelve-year-old Colin Harper weaves together movies and real life in an attempt to create an understanding of what his father was like and what it means to be a man.

From a Booker Award–winning author, "a powerful and moving and deeply humane study of the tyranny of the past and the quandaries of the present"(Barry Unsworth, The New York Times Book Review). Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick''s grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick''s suburban family loses control over their world, Nick begins to learn his grandfather''s buried secrets and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present. As a study of the power of memory and loss, Pat Barker''s Another World conveys with extraordinary intensity the ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present. "Barker''s confidence as a stripped-down, elegant stylist is evenly matched by her moral depth." — The Boston Sunday Globe "[Pat Barker] is the natural successor to George Orwell, like him a keen and passionate defender of humiliated children, foot soldiers and what''s become of the British working class." — Newsday "Of such imaginative complexity and generosity that first-rate fiction is made." — Kirkus Reviews "Haunting. . . . [A] suspenseful read, but the books real power lies in [Barker''s] vividly drawn characters." — Library Journal "A narrative with all the richness and complexity of a symphony." — The New Criterion

Un autre monde, c''est celui où replonge au cours de sa longue agonie le grand-père de Nick, un vétéran de la Première Guerre mondiale hanté par le souvenir de ses camarades disparus au combat, et plus particulièrement par celui de son frère Harry. Mais c''est aussi l''exploration des relations ambiguës entre les membres d''une famille recomposée : Nick et sa fille Miranda, née d''un premier mariage, une adolescente murée dans le silence ; la seconde épouse de Nick, Fran, qui attend un bébé ; leur fils Jasper, âgé de deux ans, et le fils de Fran, Gareth, un préadolescent fasciné par les jeux vidéo violents. Les tensions qui règnent entre ces personnages prennent un relief inattendu quand ils découvrent sous un vieux papier peint un tableau obscène représentant les Fanshawe, les premiers habitants de Lob''s Hill, la belle maison dans laquelle ils viennent d''emménager. En apprenant que le bambin qui trône au centre de la fresque a été assassiné dans les lieux où ils vivent, Nick a toute raison de craindre que le passé ne se répète...

An extract from an international celebration charting the 20th century - stories of poverty and wealth, work and play, tales of changing environments - both urban and rural, in peace and wartime.

"Union Street: Concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all are struggling to survive."--Provided by publisher.

De traumatische herinneringen van een oude man aan de Eerste Wereldoorlog vermengen zich met het chaotische gezinsleven van zijn kleinzoon.

The author traces the history of dragon boating, provides easy-to-understand information on boat construction ( with boat plans) and racing techniques, profiles the top individual racers, documents the international character of the sport, and looks ahead to its future.