A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
  • Published:
    Oct-1989 (Hardcover)
    Jul-1990 (Paperback)
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    General Fiction
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A “playful, witty, and entertaining” book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven -- from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.

It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.

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    • Aug-1990
    • Picador (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330313991
    • ISBN13: 9780330313995
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    • Jan-1990
    • Random House (Canada)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0394221796
    • ISBN13: 9780394221793
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    • Dec-1990
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679731377
    • ISBN13: 9780679731375
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    • Jul-1996
    • Cambridge University Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0521484782
    • ISBN13: 9780521484787
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    • Aug-2009
    • Vintage Publishing
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099540126
    • ISBN13: 9780099540120
    • First Edition
    • Oct-1989
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394580613
    • ISBN13: 9780394580616
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    • Nov-2010
    • Vintage Canada
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307367584
    • ISBN13: 9780307367587
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    • Jun-2011
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409088650
    • ISBN13: 9781409088653
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    • Jun-2011
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307797864
    • ISBN13: 9780307797865
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    • Jan-1994
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1850897301
    • ISBN13: 9781850897309
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    • Nov-2010
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
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    • Apr-2020
    • Naxos
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1094015962
    • ISBN13: 9781094015965
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    • Apr-2020
    • Naxos
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1094015954
    • ISBN13: 9781094015958
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    • Oct-1990
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1850893489
    • ISBN13: 9781850893486
    • Large Print



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