Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as...

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Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction,...

Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from naive, carefree country girl before the war to old age in 2020, following her experiences of marriage, motherhood and life. von Barnes, Julian

In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is...

Christopher Lloyd wächst in Metroland auf, dem Londoner Vorort, der von der Metropolitan Line bedient wird. Er und Tony gehen in die gleiche Klasse - und heben sich von den anderen Schülern ab, indem sie sich in Weltverachtung üben. Nach...

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about...

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. von Barnes, Julian

"A History of the World in 10½ Chapters" von Julian Barnes ist ein unkonventioneller Roman, der aus einer Sammlung von miteinander verbundenen Erzählungen besteht. Diese Geschichten bieten verschiedene Perspektiven auf historische und...

Der Historiker Graham Hendrick war fünfzehn Jahre einigermaßen glücklich verheiratet. Doch dann lernt er auf einer Party Ann kennen, gescheiterte Schauspielerin und nun erfolgreiche Einkäuferin. Ann wird die Frau seines Lebens, das mit...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 - a brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the...

The Only Story von Barnes, Julian