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Informationen zum Autor Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending , which won the 2011 Booker Prize, 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 five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life . He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'honneur in 2017. Klappentext Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels! including The Sense of an Ending ! which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories! four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction! Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life . In 2017 he was awarded the L on d'honneur. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives.

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Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, 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 five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'honneur in 2017.

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Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the L on d'honneur.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives.