A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past): Julian Barnes - Softcover

Barnes, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784871370 ISBN 13: 9781784871376

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2016

Synopsis

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten- they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger; a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.

About this title

About the Author:

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784871370
• ISBN 13: 9781784871376
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320