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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409088523
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Flaubert's Parrot




'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409088523
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

About the author

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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Praise for Flaubert's Parrot

Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’

Caroline Rees, Daily Express

Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in

Joseph Heller

Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force

Germaine Greer

A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!

John Irving

Unputdownable... A mesmeric original

Philip Larkin

A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny

Sunday Times