A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

ISBN-13: 9780099540120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Julian Barnes

Opis

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's Ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.