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LoganLib_JennyI
May 05, 2017LoganLib_JennyI rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I couldn't wait to read this book after loving The Life of Pi (Man Booker Prize and book-turned-movie). Like Richard Parker from Pi, Martel continues the animal motif with a donkey and a monkey. It has delightful prose and vivid imagery (the pear scene, I could read again and again). But the delightful prose cloaks dark themes of the holocaust and Dante's hell revealed in a surreal play, written by Henry (1) the taxidermist. The play sits within the narrative of Henry (2) the writer with writer's block. I can't say I truly understood it all, but I did thoroughly enjoy it.