The Essential Rumi tr. From the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize comes a disquieting novel about past ills and present fragilities. Meanwhile, Nick and his family are failing in their attempts to live peacefully together.
Barker tells the family's hopeless story compassionately, but without sentimentality.
Her convincing dialogue and descriptiveness make her examination of the fluidity of wrongs and consequences through time a hauntingly thought-provoking read . Another World is Barker's fifth novel. This old-fashioned novel in a modern idiom remains one of the best things she has ever done, surely the most moving. In 1914, while thousands of men around the world were engaged in a battle of unprecedented violence, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a handful of carefully selected explorers were wrestling with a remarkable horror of their own. Just shy of reaching the continent, the Endurance became trapped in unseasonable ice-flows.