Beatrice and Virgil
Book description
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 -…
Why read it?
1 author picked Beatrice and Virgil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
After reading Life of Pi many years ago (before the movie came out) I never found myself reading another Yann Martel book, which is strange as I loved the Life of Pi so much.
Back in March of this year I
stumbled across a copy of Beatrice and Virgil in an old bookshop in Paris, and
was instantly drawn to it, not only from the author's name, but the blurb intrigued me terribly.
Yann Martel has this brilliant way of turning a story that can often seem random and unusual, into something you simply have to know what is going…
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