STARING AT THE SUN
Book ID/图书代码： 06580008B20631
English Summary/英文概要： Ambitious and speculative, this is a novel on the theme of courage, from the public heroisms of wartime to the private ones of ordinary life. Comic, tender and beautifully written.
A fighter pilot, high above the English Channel in 1941, watches the sun rise; he descends 10,000 feet and then, to his amazement, finds the sun beginning to rise again. With this haunting image Julian Barnes’ novel begins. It charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naïve, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China; we learnt the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事讲述了一个女孩平凡的一生。从Jean Serjeant的童年，到20世纪20年代的童年时代，2021年的成人阶段。透过她的一生，jean在寻找日常生活中的美和奇迹时，开始对这个世界的真相表示怀疑。（Celia）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 1946年出生在英国莱斯特的朱利安•巴斯尼写了大量书籍、散文，并翻译了都德的众多小说。他最近的一本书The Sense of an Ending 获得了2011年布克奖。另还有Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and One Short Story), 和 Levels of Life。
他在英法两国都非常知名。获得了法国蒙迪西大奖（the Prix Médicis）和Fémina奖，2004年他获得了法国文学艺术爵士勋章。在英国，他获得了毛姆奖，杰弗里 法贝尔纪念奖和美国E.M福斯特奖，圣克里蒙蒂奖。2011年他获得了大卫 科恩年度文学奖，2011年他的The Sense of an Ending还获得了布克奖。
Julian Barnes has published over a dozen books, amongst them the novels Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert’s Parrot, Staring at the Sun, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Talking It Over, The Porcupine, England, England and Love, etc; short stories, including Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and the collections of essays, Letters from London and Something to Declare. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking It Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. He lives in London.
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