Book description
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is,
among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher
brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration
of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French
writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my
autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most
brilliant writers. Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels,
including
Metroland
, Flaubert's Parrot
, Arthur &
George
and most recently 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
; and three collections of journalism, Letters from London
, Something to Declare
and The Pedant in the Kitchen
. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In
France he is the only British writer to have won both the Prix Médicis
(for Flaubert's Parrot
) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking it Over
). In 2004 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature,
and in 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He
lives in London.
