num_pages: 320
description: Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, 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 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 reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
language: English
title: A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
titlecomplete: A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 15002
publisher: Vintage