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"Ein außergewöhnlich intimes und ehrliches Buch über Liebe und Trauer" The Times
Julian Barnes schreibt über die menschliche Existenz auf der Erde und in der Luft. Wir lernen Nadar kennen, Pionier der Ballonfahrt und einer der ersten Fotografen, die Luftaufnahmen machten, sowie Colonel Fred Burnaby, der zum eigenwilligen Bewunderer der extravaganten Schauspielerin Sarah Bernhardt wird. Und wir lesen über Julian Barnes eigene Trauer über den Tod seiner Frau schonungslos offen, präzise und tief berührend. Ein Buch über das Wagnis zu lieben.
"Eines der besten, bewegendsten Bücher, die es gibt" Evening Standard

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This short, unconventional book is probably the most moving that Julian Barnes has ever written

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´You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...´ Julian Barnes´s new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as ´an unparalleled magus of the heart´. This book confirms that opinion.

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"It is extraordinary... [It] would seem to pull off the impossible: to recreate, on the page, what it is like to be alive in the world." Emma Brockes Guardian

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Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d´honneur.

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