Beatrice and Virgil
- 7 Jul 2011
- 9781847677679
- £9.99
- 224 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Jun 2010
- 9781847679116
- £7.99
- 224 pp
- 3 Jun 2010
- 9781847679840
- £18.99
- 6 hrs 1 min
In a few words
The dazzling follow-up to the million-copy bestselling LIFE OF PI
In a few words
The long-awaited new novel from the author of the multi-million copy-selling Life of Pi
In a few words
Audio edition of the dazzling follow-up to the million-copy bestselling LIFE OF PI
A provocative and fiercely brave novel. It grips the reader with teeth as sharp as a Bengal tiger's
John Boyne
author of The Boy in the Striped PyjamasA sophisticated fable...Beatrice and Virgil is so imbued with passionate moral and intellectual ardor that even the cynical should find it engaging.
Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy
Ultimately uplifting
A provocative and fiercely brave novel. It grips the reader with teeth as sharp as a Bengal tiger's
John Boyne
author of The Boy in the Striped PyjamasA sophisticated fable...Beatrice and Virgil is so imbued with passionate moral and intellectual ardor that even the cynical should find it engaging.
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This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.
It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry.
It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century.
Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.
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Fate takes many forms . . .
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulling into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey – named Beatrice and Virgil – and the epic journey they undertake together.
With all the spirit and orginality that made Life of Pi so treasured, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way, Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
More about
the book
Fate takes many forms. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey – named Beatrice and Virgil – and the epic journey they undertake together.
With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so treasured, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
It's a masterpiece, no question.
A N Wilson
Reader’s DigestAn explosion of ideas that keep the pages turning...a wild, provocative novel
Audaciously original, never less than engrossing, often disturbing, and in its denouement truly horrifying.
Mick Brown
The Telegraph MagazineA slim but potent exploration of the nature of survival in the face of evil.
Nina Sankovitch
The Huffington PostA terrific book ... fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore
Margaret Atwood
Sunday Times on Life of PiA hilarious novel, full of clever tricks, amusing asides and grand originality
This enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder . . . this is fiction probing the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to "bring out its essence"
It's a masterpiece, no question.
A N Wilson
Reader’s DigestAn explosion of ideas that keep the pages turning...a wild, provocative novel
Audaciously original, never less than engrossing, often disturbing, and in its denouement truly horrifying.
Mick Brown
The Telegraph MagazineA slim but potent exploration of the nature of survival in the face of evil.
Nina Sankovitch
The Huffington Post
Yann Martel
View profileYann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of four novels, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), and his latest, The High Mountains of Portugal. Life of Pi was adapted for the silver screen by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers, and their four children.
Yann Martel
View profileYann Martel was born in Spain in 1963. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelled before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was translated into thirty-eight languages. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Yann Martel
View profileYann Martel was born in Spain in 1963. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelled before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was translated into thirty-eight languages. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
