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The Cemetery in Barnes: A Novel

The Cemetery in Barnes: A Novel

by Gabriel Josipovici (Author)

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Synopsis

Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Gabriel Josipovici's The Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices - as in an opera by Monteverdi - provide the soundtrack, enhanced by a chorus of friends and acquaintances. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris and then to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once confirms and suspends the reader's darkest intuitions. The Cemetery in Barnes reaffirms Josipovici's status as `one of the very best writers now at work in the English language, and a man whose writing, both in fiction and in critical studies, displays a unity of sensibility and intelligence and deep feeling difficult to overvalue at any time' (Guardian).

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 104
 Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 29 Mar 2018
ISBN 10: 1784105465
ISBN 13: 9781784105464
Book Overview: The 18th novel from the distinguished novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright; Three plots, three time-scales, three relationships are tightly woven into a single work, with three main voices, as in an opera by Monteverdi, who provides a sound-track; The translator-protagonist evokes Paris, where his narrative starts; London, where he lived during his first marriage; and Wales, with its unexpected conflagration; Dubbed `one of the very best writers now at work in the English language' by The Guardian

Media Reviews
'I do not think there is any writer working in English at present who is more subtly inventive and more original.' - Tales from the Reading Room
Author Bio
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of sixteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.