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Imagine an England 13where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the to...

»Dieser Roman zeigt Julian Barnes auf dem Höhepunkt seines Könnens.« P.D. James Zwei Männer, geprägt vom ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert in Großbritannien, begegnen sich in einer entscheidenden und dramatischen Phase ihres Lebens: Arthur Conan Doyle, der Erfinder von Sherlock Holmes, und George Edalji, ein kleiner Provinzanwalt. Julian Barnes schildert sie auf faszinierende Weise vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Zeit. Arthur und George könnten untersc...

La "pura e semplice storia" di questo romanzo è quella di un vedovo, Geoffrey Braithwaite, medico inglese, in viaggio nei luoghi del suo autore di culto: Gustave Flaubert. Una sorta di pellegrinaggio fisico, ma soprattutto intellettuale alla ricerca di un frammento di verità possibile sulla vita, gli amori, gli amici, i vizi, le meschinità e la grandezza dell'impareggiabile maestro francese. Ma può mai essere pura una storia, e può forse esser...

Al professore che lo interroga, Christopher Lloyd ama rispondere "J'habite Metroland", adoperando il nome di una fermata della storica Metropolitan Line di Londra, "meglio di Eastwick, più esotico di Middlesex", per indicare la sonnacchiosa periferia urbana in cui vive. "Uno abitava in quella zona perché da li era facile andarsene", osserva Chris, che ad andarsene, insieme all'inseparabile amico Toni Barbarowski, come lui sedicenne, come lui f...

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An Everyman's Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the Booker Prize-winning author's earliest and most admired novels, neither of which has been available in hardcover for more than two decades. With full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction.Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book-shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984-is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obses...

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In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block.

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In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school, they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland: the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home.

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In 1991 verscheen Trioloog, het verhaal van de goede vrienden Oliver en Stuart, de vrouw van wie ze allebei houden, en de ongemakkelijke liefdesdriehoek die erop volgt. Barnes werd alom geprezen voor zijn baanbrekende verteltechniek waarin de drie personages afwisselend over hun levens praten, met de lezer als het ware als therapeut. Tien jaar later keerde Barnes terug naar Oliver, Stuart en Gillian in 'Liefde, enz'. De vrienden cq. geliefden ...

A novel about the most dramatic political downfall of our time - that of Eastern Europe. The author won the Prix Medicis with "Flaubert's Parrot". He also wrote "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" and "Metroland".

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At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.