Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book is about The Holocaust using animals. The central character is Henry who is a novelist having had one book be a huge success, finds it difficult to get published his latest offering which is about the Holocaust.
He moves away and eventually, through a series of events, leads him to a taxidermest who has written a play about The Holocaust through Beatrice and Virgil who are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey.
I found this book strange, weird but compelling and couldn't put it down.

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