From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir-a wise, funny, and devastating … discourse on love and sorrow (The New York Times Book Review).

In this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.