This month, the Blue Elephant Book Group will be reading A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes. All store purchases of this book are 10% off until the meeting!

The Blue Elephant Book Group meets at the store on the second Wednesday of every month. Come for this month's discussion at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, January 19. Anyone is welcome to join us!

Julian Barnes

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway’s account of life on board Noah’s Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...

This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.

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