A “playful, witty, and entertaining” book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah’s ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven–from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
It’s a hilariously revisionist account of Noah’s ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn’t appear in Genesis. It’s a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert’s Parrot.
Author: Julian Barnes
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/27/1990
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.14w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780679731375
Language: English
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