![]() ![]() “So my novel is an attempt to get a distillation on it,” Mr. Martel said that although there had been a few works like “Life Is Beautiful” in film or the “Maus” books by Art Spiegelman that had been more metaphorical, artists were generally “fearful of letting the imagination loose on the Holocaust.” “I was thinking that it was interesting that you don’t have many imaginative takes on it like George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and its take on Stalinism.” Martel, 46, said in a telephone interview from his home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. “I’ve noticed over the years of reading books on the Holocaust and seeing movies that it’s always represented in the same way, which is historical or social realism,” Mr. It relates the story of an encounter between a famous writer and a taxidermist who is writing a play that features dialogue between a donkey and a monkey, both imprinted on a shirt. Like “Life of Pi,” the new book is an allegory this time about the Holocaust involving animals. ![]() Martel’s third novel, as yet untitled, in the United States sometime next year. Seven years after winning the Man Booker Prize for “Life of Pi,” the global best seller about a shipwrecked Indian boy sharing a boat with a tiger, Yann Martel has sold a manuscript for his follow-up for around $3 million, according to people familiar with the negotiations.Īfter a monthlong auction Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, one of the world’s largest publishers, bought the rights to publish Mr. ![]()
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