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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.
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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Yann Martel
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura),
- Condizioni del libro
- Danneggiato
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- 11,49 €
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- Titolo
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Yann Martel
- Editore
- Vintage Canada
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0676976190
- ISBN13
- 9780676976199
- Serie
- Categoria
- Descrizione
- 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.