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. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.
| ISBN: | 9780099540151 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2009 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 211 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration Shorter Reads |