International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

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The 2003 Award

Border Crossing

by Pat Barker

Nominated by

Centrale Openbare Bibliotheken, Antwerp, Belgium
Biblioteka Publiczna M. St. Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland
Glasgow City Libraries, Glasgow, Scotland

Border Crossing by Pat Barker

Publisher of Nominated Editions: Viking 0670878413 : Farrer, Strauss & Giroux 0374181152

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who has worked I the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by a river near his home, her rescues a young man from drowning, and realises that it is Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Evidence he has since come to regard as flawed.
Danny has served his sentence and is out of prison. Now he's asking for Tom's help. But as Tom is drawn back, reluctantly, into Danny's troubled world, he begins to question Danny's motives - and his own.
In Border Crossing, Pat Barker grapples with moral issues: childhood and innocence, environment and heredity, the narrow border between good and evil.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her previous books include Union Street (1982), which won the Fawcett Prize and was filmed as Stanley and Iris, Blow Your House Down (1984), Liza's England (1986, formerly The Century's Daughter), The Man Who Wasn't There (1989), the Regeneration Trilogy, (comprising Regeneration (1991), which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize), and Another World (1998). Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham, England.

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