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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, 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.
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes
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- Année de publication
- 1989
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- Titre
- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Julian Barnes
- Éditeur
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Publié
- 1989
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 309
- ISBN10
- 0224026690
- ISBN13
- 9780224026697
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans historiques, Littérature contemporaine, Nouvelles, 20e siècle, Littérature britannique
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, 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.