Yann Martel Knihy

Kniha je nielen príbehom o stroskotaní a záchrane, je zároveň grandióznou úvahou a meditáciou o stvorení a ľudskom poslaní, o jedinečnosti života na Zemi...

Revised and with a new author’s note and cover, here is Man Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel’s debut. First published in 1993, this remarkable collection of four stories launched the career of a masterful writer. In the exquisite title novella, 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, whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In “The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton,” a Canadian university student visits Washington, DC and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. “Manners of Dying” has variations of a warden’s letter to the mother of a son he has just executed, revealing how each life is contained in its end. Finally, in “The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company,” a young man discovers a strange contraption in his grandmother’s basement. As the machine runs, she reflects upon her beloved husband.

A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel weaves a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.

This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.

Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka changes from a boy into something far wilder. He learns to see in the dark, attack enemies with tooth and claw, and understand the strict pack code. But when he begins to hunt in the city, the world of human beings, it is only a matter of time before the authorities take an interest...

This story of love, sex and ambiguity is the first novel by the Canadian author of the award-winning Life of Pi

Wanneer een schrijver met een writer's block door een oude dierenpreparateur wordt benaderd om hem te helpen met zijn toneelstuk over de vernietiging van het dierenrijk, ontdekt hij dat de man niet is wie hij lijkt te zijn.