A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Av Julian Barnes

<p><b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011</b><br><br>Beginning with an unlikely stowaway''s account of life on board Noah''s Ark, <i>A History of the World in 10¿ Chapters </i>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 <i>Medusa</i>, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...<br><br>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.</p>