segunda-feira, 25 de junho de 2012

Julian Barnes


Julian Barnes


Julian Barnes, a British novelist, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book “The Sense of an Ending,” a slim and meditative story of mortality, frustration and regret.
“The Sense of an Ending” is Mr. Barnes’s 11th novel — a 163-page book that has sometimes been called a novella for its size and simplicity.
Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani said the book “manages to create genuine suspense as a sort of psychological detective story. We not only want to find out how Mr. Barnes’s narrator, Tony Webster, has rewritten his own history — and discover what actually happened some 40 years ago — but also understand why he has needed to do so.”
Mr. Barnes, who lives in London, has been nominated for the Booker three times in the past, for his novels “Flaubert’s Parrot,” “England, England” and “Arthur & George.”
The prize, Britain’s best-known literary award, is given annually to a novel by an author in Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations. The award is accompanied by a check for about $78,000.

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