BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert--and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. - A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio. --The New York Times Book Review 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.