Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime Gordimer
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, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.
Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a
delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of
a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is
the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as
brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think
about what we think we know
*Observer*
You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's
nothing around to touch it
*Literary Review*
There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here
than you will read in a month of Sundays... storytelling and
teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant
*Financial Times*
This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a
wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of
ebullient, whooping joy
*Guardian*
Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a
delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of
a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is
the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as
brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think
about what we think we know * Observer *
You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's
nothing around to touch it * Literary Review *
There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here
than you will read in a month of Sundays... storytelling and
teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant *
Financial Times *
This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a
wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of
ebullient, whooping joy * Guardian *
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