{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-in-10-1-2-chapters","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 101\/2 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. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523695841554,"sku":"9780679731375","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4508b9ed-a727-4fe2-9a6d-f39ce3008dad.jpg?v=1731162672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-in-10-1-2-chapters","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}