NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain.
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife—their fates become inextricably connected.
FINALIST
| 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
FINALIST
| 2005 Man Booker Prize
“Extraordinary.... First rate.... A cracking good yarn.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An absorbing fictional re-creation of a real-life detective story.... A finely evocative historical novel as well as a morally and psychologically astute glimpse into the worlds of two men.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Masterly throughout.... The author keeps the reader on edge.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Deeply satisfying.... From the first chapter, Barnes has us in his thrall.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“A page-turner.... Arthur & George is by far Mr. Barnes's most pressurized novel to date.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted.... Rich and immensely readable.... A stream of flawless, driving sentences.... A great novel.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A marvelous book.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A”
“His most engrossing novel ever.” —Jay McInerney, The New York Observer
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain.
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife—their fates become inextricably connected.
Awards
FINALIST
| 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
FINALIST
| 2005 Man Booker Prize
Reviews
“Extraordinary.... First rate.... A cracking good yarn.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An absorbing fictional re-creation of a real-life detective story.... A finely evocative historical novel as well as a morally and psychologically astute glimpse into the worlds of two men.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Masterly throughout.... The author keeps the reader on edge.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Deeply satisfying.... From the first chapter, Barnes has us in his thrall.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“A page-turner.... Arthur & George is by far Mr. Barnes's most pressurized novel to date.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted.... Rich and immensely readable.... A stream of flawless, driving sentences.... A great novel.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A marvelous book.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A”
“His most engrossing novel ever.” —Jay McInerney, The New York Observer
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
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