A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780099540120
- ISBN10 0099540126
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Sammlung INGLES #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2022
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
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English LiteraturA history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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 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.
Beginning with a stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, this book presents a subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. It features a 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.