Art and Power collide in Julian Barnes's first novel since the Booker-winning The Sense of An EndingA Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year
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, 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. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur.
A great novel, Barnes's masterpiece... Exquisite,
intimate detail. He has given us a novel that is powerfully
affecting, a condensed masterpiece that traces the lifelong battle
of one man's conscience, one man's art, with the insupportable
exigencies of totalitarianism. -- Alex Preston * Observer *
Barnes's sombre, brilliant new novel opens with a scene like
something from a story by Chekhov... Gleaming with
intelligence and literary flair, this elegantly composed
fictional meditation offers a fresh gloss on a musical genius's
collisions and collusions with power. -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times
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[Barnes is] a master of the narrative sidestep... Not just a
novel about music, but something more like a musical novel...
The story itself is structured in three parts that come together
like a broken chord. It is a simple but brilliant device, and one
that goes right to the heart of this novel. -- Robert
Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *
A compelling novel about art and power, courage and cowardice,
and the capriciousness of fate...Barnes brilliantly captures
the composer's conflicted state of mind...This book is only 190
pages long, but it packs an extraordinary emotional punch.
-- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
The writing in the early pages is magnificent... The
reader has the confidence of being in the hands of a master
storyteller... Barnes has a good sense of what life was like in
the Soviet Union. He captures well the black humor, irony and
cynicism. -- Orlando Figes * New York Review of Books *
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