Regeneration

The first in a stunning trilogy about the First World War, the novel takes a real life encounter between a doctor running a hospital for the wounded, and Siegfried Sassoon. Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers ravaged by their experiences in trench warfare, is the setting for Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'. Here the poet Siegfried Sassoon, author of an article condemning the war, came under the care of psychiatrist W.H.R Rivers whose duty, as he saw it, was to return Sassoon to all the horrors of the Front, because Sassoon was sane, was healthy – and he had made a commitment. But while the encounter of Sassoon and Rivers is central to 'Regeneration', it is the exploration of the character of Rivers himself, the agony of the other patients and the insights into their minds, that makes this a tour-de-force. A superb novel related with chilling clarity and vivid compassion.

"Regeneration" is the first book in Pat Barker's powerful and Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy about the human traumas of First World War. In Pat Barker's "Regeneration" we follow the army psychiatrist William Rivers, who works at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, 1917. He treats the shell-shocked soldiers including the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as the mute Billy Prior, who only communicates by paper and pencil. William Rivers' function is to make these young men mentally stable and ready to fight again. But the more he learns about their deep traumas and damaged minds the more he wants to protect them for war of horrors.

"Regeneration" is the first book in Pat Barker's powerful and Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy about the human traumas of First World War. In Pat Barker's "Regeneration" we follow the army psychiatrist William Rivers, who works at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, 1917. He treats the shell-shocked soldiers including the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as the mute Billy Prior, who only communicates by paper and pencil. William Rivers' function is to make these young men mentally stable and ready to fight again. But the more he learns about their deep traumas and damaged minds the more he wants to protect them for war of horrors.

Regeneration er en bog om en ny generation af bønder. En bog om at omlægge sit liv og sin jord for at komme de økologiske kriser i møde. Det er en bog om at vågne op til krisen. Til kriserne. Om at blive hjemsøgt af fremtiden, af fremtidens generationer, men også af fortidens redskaber og vaner. Det er en bog om at miste sproget. Om at læse marken. En bog om antropologien som poesi. Om rødder og rodløshed, og om at give videre. Det er en bog om lys og blod, om død og liv. Om hvad det vil sige at leve i og med et fremmed landskab og årstiderne. En bog om følsomhed, om gensidig heling og udsathed, om antiidyl. Her er regeneration en proces, der starter og slutter med en produktiv forvirring, hvor aflæsningen af verden ikke giver sig selv, men fordrer en styrket opmærksomhed på de levende systemer og livsformer omkring os. Det er en bog, der tegner omridset af en ny regenerativ poetik. “Hun giver ikke noget færdigpakket svar, men hendes håbefulde bog om regenerativt landbrug handler om en udvikling, en bestræbelse, ja, ligefrem en ny følsomhed i bondens forhold til jorden. [Det er] regulært bevægende at læse om de unge, håbefulde bønders ildhu og frustrationer.”– Politiken, 5 hjerter“ Jeg har lyst til at forære bogen til alle, jeg kender”– Kim Skotte, Politiken “ Den første spændende bog, jeg har læst om landbrug.”– Susanne Christensen, Vagant“ Ahl skriver mere som digter end som akademiker. [Hun har] ikke blot et mellemværende med jorden, men også med sproget.”- Atlas Magasin “En fængslende fortælling om det at være hjemsøgt af fremtiden midt i klimakrisen.”– NY TID Bokmagasin, NO“Gør én klogere.” - Information

The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis. From land to ocean, food to industries - Regeneration proposes an extensive menu of actions that collectively can reverse the overheating and degradation of our planet. The solutions, techniques, and practices range from solar power, electric vehicles, and tree planting to bioregions, azolla fern and forest farms; they are all doable, science-based, and comprise a precise and unequivocal course of action. Whether you are an individual, community focused or a national government, Regeneration is a call to arms to mobilise and create a better future for ourselves on this planet.

The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis. From land to ocean, food to industries - Regeneration proposes an extensive menu of actions that collectively can reverse the overheating and degradation of our planet. The solutions, techniques, and practices range from solar power, electric vehicles, and tree planting to bioregions, azolla fern and forest farms; they are all doable, science-based, and comprise a precise and unequivocal course of action. Whether you are an individual, community focused or a national government, Regeneration is a call to arms to mobilise and create a better future for ourselves on this planet.