Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Staring 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 trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
| ISBN: | 9780099540090 |
| Publication date: | 5th November 2009 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 195 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Second World War fiction Technothriller Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Interior life Family Drama |