# Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World

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- Book: [Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/flauberts-parrot-history-of-the-world) ([Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/flauberts-parrot-history-of-the-world.md))
- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-348-7
- Pages: 488
- Published: 2012-09-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Flaubert’s Parrot , shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah’s time to the present. One of the author’s most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as ‘frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a delight to read’.