{"product_id":"9780099540120-a-history-of-the-world-in-10-12-chapters","title":"A History of the World in 10 1\/2 Chapters","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in 10½ Chapters \u003c\/i\u003epresents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in 10½ Chapters \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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 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 \u003ci\u003eMedusa\u003c\/i\u003e, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943165800545,"sku":"9780099540120","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32338226.jpg?v=1737185878","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099540120-a-history-of-the-world-in-10-12-chapters","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}