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Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot - Thryft
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Literary detective story with a twist.

This book could be a good read for someone who loves both mystery and literary genius. Julian Barnes masterfully combines both elements in "Flaubert's Parrot". This book is not only a detective story but also a character study of the detective himself. With a mixture of fiction and facts, Barnes weaves a compelling and entertaining narrative that will keep readers engaged from beginning to end.

  • 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)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes
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ISBN: 9780679731368
Authors: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1990-11-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 15271 readers)

Description

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Flaubert'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
 

Literary detective story with a twist.

This book could be a good read for someone who loves both mystery and literary genius. Julian Barnes masterfully combines both elements in "Flaubert's Parrot". This book is not only a detective story but also a character study of the detective himself. With a mixture of fiction and facts, Barnes weaves a compelling and entertaining narrative that will keep readers engaged from beginning to end.

  • 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)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.