
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, and George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events, which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately...
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Jag har tyckt om andra böcker av Julian Barnes, men den här "Dreyfus" affären där Arthur Conan Doyle spelar Sherlock Holmes hade jag svårt att engagera mig i. De första två delarna, när huvudkontrahenterna presenteras, var rätt långa och det var först i de sista 25% som mitt intresse vaknade.