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Barnes, Julian

 
9780679731375: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage International)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679731377 ISBN 13: 9780679731375
Verlag: Vintage, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

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 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.


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.

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This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679731377
ISBN 13 
9780679731375
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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