Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World Spinning & weaving a snowdrift stops the Orient

a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks

'I totally adored this book

When Simon unwraps a beautiful boomerang wrapped in an old newspaper

You know that phrase

Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World Spinning & weaving a snowdrift stops the OrientIn these two masterpieces of post modernism, Julian Barnes explores themes of identity, authenticity and history. Hardback classic edition. Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. A History of the World in 10 1 2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso