by Yann Martel · Canongate Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781847677655
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«Beatrice and Virgil» is the literary novel by Yann Martel, published by Canongate Books in hardcover (224 pages, in English).
Writer Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist containing a riddle he cannot resist. As he enters the orbit of that strange man, his life crosses with that of a donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice and Virgil, protagonists of a symbolic journey. Martel uses the fable to question creation, truth, responsibility, and human complicity.
The novel was originally published in 2010. Yann Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi.
A novel for book clubs and for those who prefer contemporary literary fiction with symbolic layers and moral questions.
Yann Martel, is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
