History of World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Ned)

History of World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Ned)

Barnes, Julian

     

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Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 978-0-09-954012-0
Объём: 320 страниц

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, 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 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.