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An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss—making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief.Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” This book confirms that opinion. “Spare and beautiful...a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing.” —Ruth Scurr, The Times of London“A remarkable narrative that is as raw in its emotion as it is characteristically elegant in its execution.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish TimesFrom the Hardcover e

In these fourteen brilliant stories, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending examines longing and loss, friendship and love, the historical past and contemporary life—all with hi

Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all th

With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkli

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize-winningThe Sense of an Ending 1936: Shostakovich, just

An extraordinary collection—hawk-eyed and understanding—from the Man Booker Prize–winning, best-selling author ofThe Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life.As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed th

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him thro

Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James

As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling

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

A follow-up to The Sense of an Ending traces the Man Booker Prize-winning writer's life from the 19th-century events that shaped his world to his transformative experiences with ballooning, photograph

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examine

獲2011年布克獎本書是Barnes對回憶的沉思，一位看似平凡的中年男人，在生命的後半段意外獲得一項「遺產」。他發現長久以來的回憶都被掩蓋了一半，而隨著其他記憶浮現，他也必須面對生命的真相。今年的評審主席Dame Stella Rimington稱本書「擁有一切英語經典必備的素質，寫法精緻、情節細微、每次重讀都呈現不同的深度。」~~文匯報Winner of the 2011 Man Booker