Metroland. Before She Met Me. Flaubert's Parrot.
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Metroland. Before She Met Me. Flaubert's Parrot.
19.99 €
Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes—a modern English classic, "the most elegant stylist and most unpredictable master of every imaginable literary form" (The Scotsman)—will celebrate his 80th birthday in January 2026 with the release of his new (and possibly final) book, Exodus(es). It's time to remember where it all began, and this volume includes the first three novels by "the finest and subtlest of our literary heavyweights" (The Independent), as well as two of his rare early short stories (published in Russian for the first time).
Introduced to you: Metroland—"a masterpiece of nostalgic outrage" (Vogue) and at the same time "one of the finest descriptions of family happiness in world literature" (Lev Danilkin), the story of people who tried to change the world and failed to notice how it changed them (the novel is published with additional materials—a preface to the anniversary edition, a deleted scene);
Before She Met Me is "a ruthlessly brilliant novel about a relationship ruined by jealousy, full of astute observations on the nature of love" (Metro);
Flaubert's Parrot, Barnes's first shortlisted novel for the Booker Prize, is "a delightful novel, satiating both mind and soul" (Joseph Heller), in which, through the lens of Flaubert's biography, Barnes attempts to answer the question: what is more important to us as readers—an author's books or his life?
Introduced to you: Metroland—"a masterpiece of nostalgic outrage" (Vogue) and at the same time "one of the finest descriptions of family happiness in world literature" (Lev Danilkin), the story of people who tried to change the world and failed to notice how it changed them (the novel is published with additional materials—a preface to the anniversary edition, a deleted scene);
Before She Met Me is "a ruthlessly brilliant novel about a relationship ruined by jealousy, full of astute observations on the nature of love" (Metro);
Flaubert's Parrot, Barnes's first shortlisted novel for the Booker Prize, is "a delightful novel, satiating both mind and soul" (Joseph Heller), in which, through the lens of Flaubert's biography, Barnes attempts to answer the question: what is more important to us as readers—an author's books or his life?
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Large Books