Beatrice and Virgil. Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelling before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, as well as the novel Self, the stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and the collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada What is Stephen Harper reading?. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
ALSO BY YANN MARTEL
FICTION
The High Mountains of PortugalLife of PiSelfThe Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamations
NONFICTION
What is Stephen Harper Reading?
Copyright
First published in Canada in 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Canada, Ltd., Toronto
First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2010 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Yann Martel, 2010
The moral right of the author has been asserted
The excerpts from Gustave Flaubert’s ‘The Legend of Julian Hospitator’ were translated from the French by Howard Scott and Phyllis Aranoff.
The illustration on page 142 is by Tomislav Torjanac.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84767 911 6
Book design by Caroline Cunningham
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