Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: roccamatios, helsinki, facts
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2005-09-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156032457
ISBN-13: 9780156032452

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel’s career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. Variations of a warden’s letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. A young man’s fascination with the