num_pages: 229
description: Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the colour of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should it matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor haunted by a private secret? In "Flaubert's Parrot", Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic) and creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.
language: English
title: Flaubert's Parrot
titlecomplete: Flaubert's Parrot
genres: Fiction, France, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 14979
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Picador