A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409088653
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think about what we think we know
Salman Rushdie, Observer
Barnes has created something unique in his work: a particular way of looking at life, at words, at relationships
Financial Times
Fantastically mind-boggling
Jennifer Shelton, Cambridgeshire Journal
There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here than you will read in a month of Sundays...storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant
Financial Times
This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of ebullient, whooping joy
Guardian
You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it
Anne Smith, Literary Review