Julian Barnes
From the love of life to the passing of love
British Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes presents his new novel about an unconventional first love that becomes a lifelong challenge.
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?" is how Julian Barnes' new novel The Only Story begins.
At nineteen, Paul is proud that his love for the married and nearly 30 years older Susan spits in the face of social convention. He is quite sure that in Susan he has found the woman for life; everything else is beside the point. Only as he grows older, Paul realizes that the demands this love makes on him are greater than he ever thought possible.
The Only Story is an artful, deeply moving novel about love. After The Noise of Time and The Sense of an Ending, bestselling author and Man Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes proves once again that he is a master at plumbing human depths.
The conversation will be in English.
Thomas Bodmer