A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: Julian Barnes - Brossura

Barnes, Julian

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ISBN 10: 1784871370 ISBN 13: 9781784871376

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2016

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784871370
• ISBN 13: 9781784871376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320