Beatrice and Virgil - Tapa dura

Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy * * The Times on Life of Pi * * Ultimately uplifting * * Daily Mail on Life of Pi * * A terrific book ... fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore -- Margaret Atwood * * Sunday Times on Life of Pi * * A hilarious novel, full of clever tricks, amusing asides and grand originality * * Daily Telegraph on Life of Pi * * 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" * * Guardian on Life of Pi * *

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. This is a hardback edition, signed by Yann Martel.