Staring at the Sun

8 hrs. 26 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Julian Barnes

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

This truly remarkable novel tells the story of Gin’s life: at the beginning of the book, she is young and naive, and the Second World War has ended only recently. Then we meet her in midlife, and finally on her hundredth birthday—so distant from the author’s 2020. Readers will find astonishing accounts of a world of two suns and universal computers of the future, surprising plot twists, and Barnes’s signature aphorisms—sharp and biting. This dizzying, phantasmagoric, philosophical text is one of the best examples of Julian Barnes’s early prose. A real intellectual feast for lovers of English literature!