Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of style and imagination? Julian Barnes spins a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both scholarly and romantic.
  • FINALIST | 1984
    Booker Prize
© Alan Edwards
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-five 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 and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes
“A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.... rich in parody and parrotry, full of insight and wit ... a great success.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of style and imagination? Julian Barnes spins a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both scholarly and romantic.

Awards

  • FINALIST | 1984
    Booker Prize

Author

© Alan Edwards
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-five 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 and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes

Praise

“A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.... rich in parody and parrotry, full of insight and wit ... a great success.” —The New York Times Book Review

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