The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
 

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

by Yann Martel

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, 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. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant... (read more)

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Alicia O
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I loved Life of Pi and so I thought that this would be another fun read by Yann. It is a complilation of 4 short stories that he wrote in his early days. I really liked the first story, I liked the second story, but the third and fourth stories were'nt good at all. Yann Martel is kind of a secular Donald Miller. He is very funny and has interesting takes on life, but sometimes he's just a little too bizarre for me.

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