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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS
by JULIAN BARNES
Frequently 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-I 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
I took the voyage through 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