A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Name: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes

by Julian Barnes

Irreverent history mixing fact and fiction across ten and a half philosophical chapters

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Julian Barnes

British novelist whose intellectual wit and formal inventiveness explore history, memory, and Franco-British cultural difference. The Sense of an Ending won the Man Booker Prize in 2011. His fiction ranges from metafictional experiments to conventional literary novels.

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