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• Booker Prize Nominee (1984)
• Audie Award Nominee for Literary Fiction & Classics (2023)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1985)
• Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1988)
• Metų verstinė knyga (2011)

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey himself.

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