Book Review: Monkey business, again
02 February 2016 - 02:05
To write one novel with an animal in a starring role may be regarded as a curiosity; to write three starts to look like monomania. But 15 years after the thunderous success of his Man Booker prize-winning Life of Pi, Yann Martel has risked it again. In that book - which sold more than 7million copies worldwide and was adapted into a film by Ang Lee - he meditated on truth and faith via the medium of a young boy's relationship with a Bengal tiger.
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