The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Paperback

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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Paperback

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Paperback

by Yann Martel
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by Yann Martel (Author)

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 mirror-making machine he finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite title story, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century.


Number of Pages: 228
Dimensions: 0.64 x 8.22 x 6.28 IN
Publication Date: September 05, 2005
ISBN9780156032452
Author Yann Martel
PublisherMariner Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages228
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. "Life of Pi" won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. A #1 "New York Times" bestseller, it spent eighty-seven weeks on the list and was adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. He is also the author of the novels "Beatrice and Virgil" and "Self," the collection of stories "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios," and a collection of letters to the prime minister of Canada, "101 Letters to a Prime Minister." He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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