About the Author: Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels the most recent of which Nothing to be Frightened of was published in 2008.His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis for Flaubert's Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking it over. In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare by the FVS foundation of Hamburg. he lives in London.
The meeting was held at Mary's. There was a discussion as to what genre the book was and there was no conclusion. Many found the book difficult to read there was no rhythm. A large part of the book was chronology. It was felt to be bitty with some moments of intelligence. Did we want to know he author and who was writing the book? The answer overwhelmingly was 'no' and it was concluded thAt it sounded like to was the Doctor writing the book. The group also felt there were several ' parrots'. Rob in pRticukR felt the prose was horrendous and had to stop to read passages. Ore than once to get an understanding of it. There was a surrealism about the story, Mary enjoyed some of it and after hearing some of the discussions will dip into it again. The summaries of the reviews on the back of the book referrs to emotions, the writing described looking at the fields of WW1 what emotions, there was no emotion on this section, the group was bemused. Many if the group did not manage to finish this book, the character Gustav was not endearing and as the prose did not flow it did not engage the reader.
The books for the next reads are:
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk about Kevin
Rosie Thomas - The Kashmir Shawl
Edmund de Waal - The Hare with the Amber Eyes
The selected book is The Hare with the Amber Eyes
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