Flaubert's Parrot
- ISBN-10
- 0307797856
- ISBN-13
- 9780307797858
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-15
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Julian Barnes
Description
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • The literary detective story of a retired doctor who is obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. 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.
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