The Noise of Time

Name: The Noise of Time
Brand: Barnes, Julian
SKU: GD-9781784703332
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** The Sunday Times Number One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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4ème de couverture

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.Biographie de l'auteurJulian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, includingThe Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, andSunday Times bestsellersThe Noise of Time andThe Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including theSunday Times number one bestsellerLevels of Life andThe Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Barnes, Julian

The Noise of Time

3.8

(174)

2,95 €

15,96 € -81%

Le Pitch

** The Sunday Times Number One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

The Noise of Time

Auteur

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

14 décembre 2016

Pages

192

Taille

17.8 x 11 x 1.3 cm

Poids

110

ISBN-13

9781784703332

Contenu

4ème de couverture

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.Biographie de l'auteurJulian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, includingThe Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, andSunday Times bestsellersThe Noise of Time andThe Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including theSunday Times number one bestsellerLevels of Life andThe Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.