A History of the World in 10½Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm’s eye view of the journey on Noah’s Ark to an astronaut’s quest for its
final resting place.
Full of pastiche and learned disquisition, heart-stopping documentary, and heart-lifting revelation, these stories are in fact all linked by a complex weave of inquiry into history itself—into
love, myth, and fabulation. It’s about everything that matters, told with brilliant imagination, intelligence, and humor.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here than you will read in a month of Sundays…storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant” —Financial Times
“Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read.” —Observer
“A History may be ultimately undefinable, but it is thoughtful, often funny and never less than fascinating.” —Publishers Weekly
Julian Barnes is the author of numerous novels, as well as several books of short stories and collections of journalism. In addition to the Man Booker Prize, his other honors
include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in
Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than
forty languages.
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