A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes (Buch)

Julian Barnes: A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters

A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters

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Random House UK Ltd, 08/2009
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-13: 9780099540120
Bestellnummer: 2182929
Umfang: 309 Seiten
Copyright-Jahr: 2009
Gewicht: 314 g
Maße: 198 x 130 mm
Stärke: 38 mm
Erscheinungstermin: 6.8.2009
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Kurzbeschreibung

'Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime Gordimer

Beschreibung

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.

Rezension

"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 think about what we think we know" Observer

Klappentext

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, 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. In 2017 he was awarded the L on d'honneur.

Biografie

Julian Barnes, 1946 in Leicester, England, geboren, arbeitete nach dem Studium moderner Sprachen als Lexikograph, dann als Journalist. Von Barnes, der zahlreiche internationale Literaturpreise erhielt, liegt ein umfangreiches erzählerisches und essayistisches Werk vor. Julian Barnes lebt in London.