Man Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as “England, England”, “Flaubert’s Parrot”, “A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters”, “Love and so on,” “Metroland” and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and directions in his works. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, refined lyricism and sarcasm bordering on cynicism, aggressive rigidity and cheerful mischief - Barnes is capable of all this and much more... In the novel “Porcupine” (never published in Russian as a book and previously available only in a magazine publication) events unfold in one of the countries of Eastern Europe after the fall of the communist regime. The main plot intrigue is an unprecedented in history, open and public trial of the former president, who was dismissed...