Description
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
240 pages
Language
German
Published
May 1, 2004
Publisher
btb
Editions
81 editions
ISBN-10
3442731178
ISBN-13
9783442731176