Download or read book Staring at the Sun written by Julian Barnes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.