獲2011年布克獎

本書是Barnes對回憶的沉思，一位看似平凡的中年男人，在生命的後半段意外獲得一項「遺產」。他發現長久以來的回憶都被掩蓋了一半，而隨著其他記憶浮現，他也必須面對生命的真相。今年的評審主席Dame Stella Rimington稱本書「擁有一切英語經典必備的素質，寫法精緻、情節細微、每次重讀都呈現不同的深度。」~~文匯報

Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
 
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
 
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.