A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 4/21/2012
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Synopsis (Credit: www.amazon.co.uk)
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ 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 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.
(Bought second-hand at the CAFDA Charity Bookshop, Warwick Street, Claremont.)
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ 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 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.
(Bought second-hand at the CAFDA Charity Bookshop, Warwick Street, Claremont.)
An entertaining collection of essays by a master storyteller. Julian Barnes manages to weave a selection of diverse stories together with subtle cross-referencing — profound at times, tongue in cheek often.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Cape Town Intl Convention Centre in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Monday, October 5, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (10/6/2015 UTC) at Cape Town Intl Convention Centre in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be left in the waiting area on the first floor during the South African International Renewable Energy Conference.
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