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Julian Barnes
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EAN: 9780099492733
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EAN: 9780099492733
Published: 1 Mar 2012
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.
This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.
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A beautiful and engrossing work
- Independent on Sunday
Richly accomplished... Dazzling
- Sunday Times
Excellent... Meticulously researched and vividly imagined, both gripping and thoughtful
- Sunday Telegraph
From the first paragraphs we know ourselves to be in the hands of a major novelist... A compelling narrative, beautifully controlled... This novel is Barnes at his best
- The Times
A fine literary detective novel and a rich evocation of a somewhat troubled England on the cusp of modernity
- Mail on Sunday
A beguiling and enormously readable novel
- Independent
An engaging work... Arthur and George is as sprightly and acute a biography of Doyle, and as touching a sketch of the persecuted Edalji, as anyone would wish for
- New Statesman
Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including Metroland, Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George and most recently The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only British writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and in 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He lives in London.
