Barnes Julian

"We're going to be fine." He looks around, but there's nothing out here: nothing but the bottomless black universe on their left, the Earth suspended in glorious technicolour to their right. Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left. None of this was supposed to happen. Adrift in space with nothing to hold on to but each other, Carys and Max...

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history 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...

Oryginalna książka, trochę powieść, trochę esej. Narratorem jest fikcyjny biograf Flauberta, Geoffrey Braithwaite, z zawodu lekarz. Goeffrey próbuje poznać swego idola przez pryzmat jego stosunku do ludzi, zwierząt, czasów, w których żył. Ale w swoistym śledztwie natyka się na trudność nie do pokonania: co faktycznie możemy wiedzieć o drugim...