Saturday, November 26, 2011

Books of the year 2011 by Julian Barnes

 

Julian Barnes


Books of the year 2011 

by Julian Barnes









Julian Barnes
Friday 25 November 2015


Is there a better short story writer in the world than Alice Munro? In her New Selected Stories (Chatto & Windus) she gives the long story the meatiness of a novel, and moves through time with an ease few can match. 


The Wine of Solitude (Chatto & Windus) continues our rediscovery (in Sandra Smith's fine translations) of Irène Némirovsky's work: it's an unerring portrait of a neglected, baleful and punitive daughter. 

Among homegrown fiction, I most admired Edward St Aubyn's At Last (Picador), and Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child (Picador) – the most originally and brilliantly structured novel I've read in a long time.


 Compiled by Ginny Hooker.

THE GUARDIAN



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