A review by tmdavis
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

3.0

Well this one was a little weird. The main character is a well-known author who has written a book on the holocaust that his publisher does not want to publish. The author gives up writing and moves with his wife to a different country where he meets a taxidermist who needs help finishing his play about a donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice and Virgil. The play mirrors the author's ideas for his novel on the holocaust which basically involved the concept of how those who lived through the holocaust never acknowledge or talk about it but how it is necessary to talk about it to overcome the tragedy. Very interesting but really strange.