A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Tapa blanda - 1990

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 GordimerBeginning 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.

Detalles

• Título A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
• Autor Julian Barnes
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición [ Edition: Repri
• Páginas 320
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Fecha de publicación 1990-11-27
• ISBN 9780679731375 / 0679731377
• Peso 0.52 libras (0.24 kg)
• Dimensiones 8.03 x 5.14 x 0.74 pulgadas (20.40 x 13.06 x 1.88 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects World history - Fiction
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 90050161
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC