num_pages: 190
description: A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage.Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.
language: English
title: Flaubert's Parrot
titlecomplete: Flaubert's Parrot
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Contemporary, France, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 14973
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: Alfred A. Knopf