«Ajuntes dues coses que no s'havien ajuntat mai fins ara. I el món canvia. La gent potser no hi cau d'entrada, però tant és. El món ha canviat igualment.» _Nivells de vida_ arrenca així i ens proposa
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchan
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign
The Pedant s ambition is simple He wants to cook tasty nutritious food he wants not to poison his friends and he wants to expand slowly and with pleasure his culinary repertoire A stern critic of himself and others he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes although he might in a burst of enthusiasm increase the quantity of a favourite ingredient Rather he is a recipe bound follower of the instructions of others It is in his interrogations of these recipes and of those who create them that the Pedant s true pedantry emerges How big exactly is a lump Is a slug larger than a gout When does a drizzle become a downpour And what is the difference between slicing and chopping This book is a witty and practical account of Julian Barnes search for gastronomic precision It is a quest that leaves him seduced by Jane Grigson infuriated by Nigel Slater and reassured by Mrs Beeton s Victorian virtues The Pedant in the Kitchen is perfect comfort for anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook and is something that none of Julian Barnes legion of admirers will want to miss
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes.
A family memoir, an exchange with the author''s brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the Fre
El puercoespín (1992) es una novela que retrata la caída del comunismo en Europa tras los sucesos de 1989. Se desarolla en un país de Europa del Este que nunca se nombre (una «seudo-Bulgaria» según e
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He''s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He''s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer''s letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world''s most distinguished writers.
