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.
- ISBN10 1850893489
- ISBN13 9781850893486
- Publish Date March 1990 (first published 22 June 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ISIS Publishing
- Imprint ISIS Paperbacks
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 499
- Language English