Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel

by Max Rashbrooke • June 3, 2010 • Book reviews, Time Out • 0 Comments

Having had great success with one animal fable, 2003’s Booker Prize-winning, seven million-selling Life of Pi, Yann Martel has gone one better: an animal fable in the shape of a play within a play. Beatrice and Virgil is the story of Henry, a novelist who believes that more “poetic license” should be taken with...