Books like Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
A routine life turns strange when Henry receives a cryptic letter from an elderly taxidermist. Intrigued, he steps into the taxidermist’s uncanny world and soon finds himself entwined with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey, Beatrice and Virgil. Their shared odyssey leads Henry—and the reader—into deep reflections on life, art, truth, deception, responsibility, and complicity, all delivered with Yann Martel’s characteristic wit and imagination.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Yann Martel
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