Julian Barnes

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When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect […]

Den enda historien är en roman om spillrorna av en kärleksrelation. Osentimentalt skildrar Julian Barnes, författare till Känslan av ett slut, hur den första kärleken kan vara livsavgörande. Och hur minnet både kan undfly och bedra oss. När Paul i början av 1960-talet träffar Susan är han student och nitton år gammal. Hon är fyrtioåtta, […]

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the […]

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of […]

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of […]

Poetiskt och drabbande om musikgeniet Sjostakovitj En man i trettioårsåldern väntar med väskan packad i trapphuset till sin lägenhet. Det är en natt i maj 1937. Mannen är Dmitrij Sjostakovitj, den store kompositören, och han väntar på att bli bortförd till Stora huset, maktens högkvarter i Leningrad. Han vet att mycket få återvänder därifrån. Sjostakovitj […]