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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this bestselling novel explores the vast tapestry of late-Victorian Britain to create one of Barnes' most intriguing and engrossing novels yet.

La vita di Tony Webster è stata un fiume relativamente tranquillo, da costeggiare al riparo di scelte ragionevoli e sistematici oblii. Ora però la lettera di un avvocato che gli annuncia un'inattesa quanto enigmatica eredità sommuove il termitaio poroso del passato, e il tempo irrompe nella noia del presente sotto forma di parole risalenti all'adolescenza, quando Tony procedeva all'educazione morale, sentimentale e sessuale che ne avrebbe fatt...

A national bestseller and "New York Times" Best Book of the Year, "Nothing tobe Frightened Of" offers a highly personal essay on mortality that touches onfaith, science, and family.

Revisits the 3 characters from "Talking It Over", as Oliver has stolen Gillian away from Stuart. 'This wonderfully entertaining novel... A work as skilled and satisfying as this can be nothing other than affirming: Barnes' delicate balance between laughter and despair lifts his entertainment into art' Erica Wagner, "The Times

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details abou...

Las experiencias religiosas de la familia del autor eran, como mínimo, tenues. Su hermano filósofo, Jonathan Barnes, después de ir a un par de servicios religiosos recuerda haberse sentido como un «niño antropólogo entre antropófagos». Julian Barnes tampoco cree en Dios, pero dice que le echa de menos. Y así comienza esta irónica y divertida memoria familiar ¿con vívidos retratos de sus abuelos, sus padres, y su hermano filósofo, pero también ...

La mattina del 29 gennaio 1936 la terza pagina della "Pravda" commentava la recente esecuzione al Bol'soj della "Lady Macbeth del distretto di Mcensk" di Dmitrij Sostakovic titolando "Caos anziche musica" e accusando l'opera di accarezzare "il gusto morboso del pubblico borghese con una musica inquieta e nevrastenica". Non si trattava solo della recensione negativa capace di rovinare la giornata di un artista. Neppure della stroncatura in grad...

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There's not much worse than having to go back to school after the holidays. Except perhaps if you return and there's graffiti all over the school! And then a flea epidemic! But at least they have the Founder's Feast to look forward to. Things are getting pretty hairy for the students of the Mammoth Academy... The heaviest snowfall in history means lots of hungry humans and soon the Academy is surrounded. How will they get out of this one?

»Ich glaube nicht an Gott, aber ich vermisse ihn.« Julian Barnes, brillant, geistreich und witzig wie immer, setzt sich mit einem Thema auseinander, das jeden ein Leben lang betrifft. Es geht um unsere Sterblichkeit, um provozierende Gedanken und aufrüttelnde Ereignisse auf dem Weg zum Ende. Eigentlich müsste man sich nicht davor fürchten. Wirklich nicht?»Was soll eigentlich dieses ganze Tamtam um den Tod?«, fragt nüchtern Julian Barnes' Mutt...

Oliver and Gillian are settled into a comfortable marriage, they have a child, Gillian is successful, Oliver is not. When Stuart returns from America, rich, divorced, a successful entrepreneur, the scene is set for the wheel to turn.

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 classic haute couture.

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 placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder. Petkanov's guilt -- and the righteousness of his opponents -- would seem to be self-evident. But, as brilliantly imagined by Barnes, the tri...

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out.

In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside rich food and barbarous sexual and religious practices, is their own ineradicable Englis...

A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of CROSS CHANNEL and THE LEMON TABLE. The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in PULSE resonate and spark, each imbued ...

»Was soll eigentlich dieses ganze Tamtam um den Tod?«, fragt nüchtern Julian Barnes' Mutter. Aber ihr Sohn kann deshalb oft nicht schlafen: »Ich erklärte ihr, mir widerstrebe eben der Gedanke daran.« Und so erzählt er die anekdotenreiche Geschichte vom Leben und Sterben der sehr britisch zugeknöpften Familie Barnes. Seine wahren Angehörigen sind für den Autor jedoch Schriftsteller und Komponisten wie Stendhal, Flaubert und Strawinsky. Brillant...