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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

By: Yann Martel

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

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ISBN: 9780151010905

Format: Hardcover
Published: December 2004

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Written earlier in Martel's career, these four unforgettable tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless. They display the startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.

The Stories

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios A very 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.

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, D.C., and experiences the Vietman War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter.

Manners of Dying Variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end.

The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last till Kingdom Come Is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine that runs on memories and fashions a unique reflection of his relationship with his grandmother.

By the author of Life of Pi

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