Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes

nBOOKER 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 n n Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. n n 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. nBOOKER 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. nBOOKER 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.

nBOOKER 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 entertai nBOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with t