Dimensions
145 x 222 x 24mm
Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end?
He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn't seen for thirty years; he could travel, he could make a trip to Paris to see a favourite painting; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do something with the time left - but what?
In her cleverest, funniest novel to date, Anita Brookner brilliantly captures all the tremulous anxieties of old age - the misunderstanding of an increasingly modern, alien world, the bungling conversations with passers-by, the letters written, torn up and rewritten - and the bizarre and magnificent self-knowledge that only age and experience bring.
