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The lemon table

Hardcover • 2004 • English • 1. edition

The lemon table

By Julian Barnes

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About the book

Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, or a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in ...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780224071987

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The lemon table

Format

Hardcover

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