One story. Barnes J.

For the first time in Russian - the latest (published in Britain in February 2018) the novel by the famous Julian Barnes, the laureate of the Buker Prize, the commander of the French Order of Arts and Literature, one of the most striking and original prose writers of modern Britain. “One story” is “insightful, with jewelry touches, an analysis of what is happening in the head and in the soul of a lover person” (The Times); This is a “deeper and more effective study of the topic already affected by Barnes in the“ foreboding of the end ” - the novel, for which he finally received the Buker Prize” (The Observer).

“Most of us have only one history - writes Barnes. - Countless events are taking place, they can be folded about them as many stories. But one single; Ultimately, only it is worth telling her. ” So, get acquainted with the floor; He is nineteen years old. In a tennis club in a quiet London suburb, he meets Mrs. Susan Maclaud; She is forty -eight. This is why their only story begins - because “it is common for a lovers to believe that their story does not fit into any framework and rubric”...