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A stowaway aboard Noah’s Ark gives us his account of the Voyage – a surprising, subversive one, quite unlike the official version – which explains a lot about how the human race has subsequently developed. A guest lecturer on a cruise ship in the Aegean has his work interrupted by a group of mysterious visitors who place him in a cruel dilemma. An ecclesiastical court in medieval France hears a bizarre case . . . Barnes creates a kaleidoscope of narrative voices – from fiction and fact, painting and snatches of autobiography – that comes slowly and compellingly into focus.
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‘Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read’ -- Salman Rushdie, Observer
‘You will want to read it again and again, and why not? – there’s nothing around to touch it’ -- Anne Smith, Literary Review
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‘You will want to read it again and again, and why not? – there’s nothing around to touch it’ -- Anne Smith, Literary Review
‘Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we know we think about what we think we know’ Salman Rushdie, Observer
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0330313991
- ISBN 13 9780330313995
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- Number of pages373
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