Truman
📗 Libro en inglés DEPARTURE(S)
VINTAGE PUBLISHING- 9781787335721
Sinopsis de DEPARTURE(S)
Departure(s) is a work of fiction – but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.
It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.
It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?
It begins at the end of life – but it doesn’t end there. Ultimately, it’s about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.
It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.
It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?
It begins at the end of life – but it doesn’t end there. Ultimately, it’s about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787335721
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 22/01/2026
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) es va formar entre Londres i Oxford, i abans de convertir-se en escriptor va treballar com a lexicògraf, editor i crític de cinema. Se’l considera un dels grans autors de la narrativa anglesa de les darreres dècades. Entre les seves obres cal destacar El lloro de Flaubert (Premi Geoffrey Faber Memorial i, a França, Premi Médicis), Una història del mon en deu capítols i mig, Anglaterra, Anglaterra, Arthur & George i El sentit d’un final (Premi Booker). Ha estat finalista en tres ocasions del prestigiós Man Booker Price i ha rebut també, entre altres guardons, el Premi E. M. Forster de l’American Academy of Arts and Letters, el William Shakespeare de la Fundació FvS d’Hamburg i el Man Booker, i és Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Fotografía © Urszula Soltys
Descubre más sobre Julian Barnes Fotografía © Urszula Soltys
Recibe novedades de Julian Barnes directamente en tu email
Los libros más vendidos esta semana
Tapa dura
(43)
