A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN lOVi CHAPTERS ^JULIAN BARNES
Trequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we know we think about what we think we know' SALMAN RUSHDIE, OBSERVER
'Immensely moving It deals with big subjects -1 can think of no weightier ones than love and survival - without ever losing its sense of humour and its lightness of touch' PETER CAREY
'You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it. At last the English novel seems to have got its balls back' ANNE SMITH, LITERARY REVIEW
'There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here, than you will read in a... Tovább

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PICADOR
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN lOVi CHAPTERS ^JULIAN BARNES
Trequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we know we think about what we think we know' SALMAN RUSHDIE, OBSERVER
'Immensely moving It deals with big subjects -1 can think of no weightier ones than love and survival - without ever losing its sense of humour and its lightness of touch' PETER CAREY
'You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it. At last the English novel seems to have got its balls back' ANNE SMITH, LITERARY REVIEW
'There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here, than you will read in a month of Sundays storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate and, above all, enchant' FINANCIAL TIMES
'1 took the voyage tiirough our dicey history and had a wonderful time. Barnes was funny, ironic, erudite, surprising and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' NADINE GORDIMER
'Playful, witty and entertaining'
JOYCE CAROL OATES, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Vissza