A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Author | : Julian Barnes |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307367584 |
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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 10½ 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.