Flaubert's Parrot

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction</b><br><br><i>Flaubert's Parrot</i> 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. <br><br>A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact <i>Flaubert's Parrot</i> is by turns moving and entertaining witty and scholarly and a tour de force of seductive originality.</p>