First love has lifelong consequences. At nineteen, Paul is proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.

Autorentext
Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'honneur in 2017.

Klappentext

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.

As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.

Zusammenfassung

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

• Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.*

  First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.

  As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

  Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.