Julian Barnes: Arthur and George, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Das Leben von Arthur Conan Doyle und ein berühmter Justizskandal des späten 19. Jahrhunderts bilden den Hintergrund für diesen großartigen historischen Roman von Julian Barnes, in dem er Fragen nach der Bedeutung von Schuld und Unschuld, Identität und Abstammung, Glauben und Wissen stellt, die heute noch ebenso aktuell sind wie damals. An extraordinary true-life tale from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes.

Beschreibung

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.

Rezension

"A beautiful and engrossing work" P D James Independent on Sunday 20050709

Klappentext

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, this accessible and profound novel is now published in paperback. Centring on a Victorian "cause celebre" Barnes brings the period, the case and the inner lives of the two main characters vividly to life. 'This novel is Barnes at his best' "Times"