Flaubert's Parrot. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: Julian Barnes

In these two masterpieces of post-modernism Julian Barnes explores themes of identity, authenticity and history. Flaubert`s Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused reseracher 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 ? 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`. Julian Barnes won the 2011 Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending.