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, sophisticated lyricism and sarcasm bordering on cynicism, aggressive toughness and cheerful mischief - Barnes is capable of all this and much more. In his newest book, published in the UK in winter 2011, Barnes "again delivers a masterclass in literary form" (Saturday Telegraph). This “deep, sincere collection of masterfully crafted mini-fictions” (Time Out) is entitled “Pulse” for a reason: Barnes’s stories are subtly subordinated to certain rhythms and cycles - friendship and enmity, delight and disappointment, love and death... For the first time in Russian .