{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-in-10-12-chapters-isbn-9780679731375","title":"A History of the World in 10 1\/2 Chapters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “playful, witty, and entertaining” book (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Sense of an Ending. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt'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, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in 10½ Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFlaubert's Parrot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Stunning … a flawless diamond.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Playful, witty and entertaining.\" —Joyce Carol Oates,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a delight to read.\" —Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At his best, Barnes is a dazzler.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a book to keep the reader on his toes.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of   stories, and a collection of essays.  He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix   Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  He   lives in London.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44867140255973,"sku":"NP9780679731375","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679731375.jpg?v=1767720530","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-in-10-12-chapters-isbn-9780679731375","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}