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Beginning with an unlikely stowaways account of life on board Noahs Ark A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictionalhistory of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten they are revisited in on 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 readers imagination Ambitious yet accessible witty and playfully serious this is the work of a brilliant novelist
ISBN: 9781784871376
Pages: 309
Paperback
Vintage, 2016
Very good condition
B68