Paperback, 240 pages
Published Jan. 6, 2002 by Pan Books Ltd (England).
Flaubert's Parrot
4 stars
(2 reviews)
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.
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.
