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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Yann Martel
Subgenres:
- Literary Fiction,
- Short Stories,
- Historical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Short stories blending inventive structure with emotional punch
- Characters processing grief and mortality through creative acts
- Historical backdrops woven into deeply personal narratives
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking.
A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. 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.
A young man's fascination with the mirror-making machine he finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite title story, 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.
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