If Julian Barnes new collection of stories has a theme it is rage in age . Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the lemon table (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible indeed obligatory to talk about death, and each of Barnes characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the Barnet Shop , a hairdessing salon where an old man measures out