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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Author: Yann Martel

This superb debut, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience. Yann Martel's short stories are moving, thought provoking and as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display the startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made him an international phenomenon.

Also by Yann Martel

Book Cover: Beatrice and Virgil
Beatrice and Virgil
By Yann Martel

Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.


The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been. Among the hundreds of stuffed animals are Beatrice and Virgil: a monkey...

Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.


The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's...

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Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758270
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover: Beatrice and Virgil
Beatrice and Virgil
By Yann Martel

Destiny can take many shapes.  For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.

The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop.  Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been.  Among the hundreds of stuffed animals are Beatrice...

Destiny can take many shapes.  For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.

The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's...

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Published: 14/04/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921656255
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
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Published:26/09/2005
Format:Paperback, 256 pages
RRP:$23.95
ISBN-13:9781920885892
ISBN-10:1920885897
Imprint:Text
Publisher:Text Publishing
Origin:United Kingdom
Subjects: - Short stories(205)

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25 May 2012
Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

The award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.

Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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