Join us for a lovely conversation with Julian Barnes to celebrate the release of his new book, Elizabeth Finch.  

This event will be at 4:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time.  Ask Google, “If it’s 4pm in Connecticut, USA, what time is it in (enter your city)” to convert the time.

Julian will be joining us from London! 

About Elizabeth Finch: This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class “Culture and Civilisation,” taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil’s grasp, Elizabeth’s application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does.

“A lyrical, thoughtful, and intriguing exploration of love, grief, and the collective myths of history. Barnes adds yet another remarkable title to his astoundingly remarkable body of work.” — Booklist

Julian Barnes is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.

This free Zoom event is co-sponsored by the Avon Free Public Library, Parnassus Books, Rizzoli Books, Community Books in Brooklyn, and Left Bank in St. Louis.

Please register; Zoom links will go out the day before the event.