YANN MARTEL is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories that has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, won the 2002 Booker (among many other prizes), spent more than a year on Canadian and international bestseller lists, and was adapted to the screen in an Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (which won the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and a book of recommended reading: 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, he studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs and travelled widely before turning to writing. In 2021 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada. He lives in Saskatoon with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
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"Brilliant. . . . The subject of Beatrice & Virgil is not just one
boy’s improbable adventure, but the very real horror of the
Holocaust, and the difficulty of doing it justice in telling it.
Martel works not at two levels, but several. . . . Be assured that
with this short, crisply written, many-layered book, Martel has
once again demonstrated that nothing tells the truth like
fiction."
— The Plain Dealer
"Ruptures the division between worlds real and imagined, forcing us
to reconsider how we think of documentary writing. Forget what this
book is ‘about’: Yann Martel’s new novel not only opens us to the
emotional and psychological truths of fiction, but also provides
keys to open its fictions ourselves, and to become, in some way,
active participants in their creation."
— The Globe and Mail
"A chilling addition to the literature about the horrors most of us
cannot imagine, and will stir its readers to think about the depths
of depravity to which humanity can sink and the amplitude of our
capacity to survive."
— The Huffington Post
"Dark but divine. . . . Martel knows exactly what he’s doing in
this lean little allegory about a talking donkey and monkey. This
novel just might be a masterpiece about the Holocaust. . . .
Somehow Martel brilliantly guides the reader from the too-sunny
beginning into the terrifying darkness of the old man’s shop and
Europe’s past. Everything comes into focus by the end, leaving the
reader startled, astonished and moved."
— USA Today
"The very idea that we think that we have heard the story enough is
perhaps a sign that we have not. . . . [R]ead Yann Martel’s
Beatrice & Virgil. You will be glad that you did, and you may find
yourself seeing your life and the world, both fictional and
otherwise, in a different light."
— About.com
"Martel’s prose is artfully simple and clear. . . . Those who
enjoyed the cerebral aspects of Life of Pi will find things to
admire."
— Winnipeg Free Press
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