num_pages: 320
description: 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 .
language: English
title: A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
titlecomplete: A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 15003
publisher: Vintage Canada