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THE FACTS BEHIND THE HELSINKI ROCCAMATIOS
SIGNED by AUTHOR YANN MARTEL
By YANN MARTEL ( Author of Life of Pi )
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada Toronto Ontario
1993 True First Edition
AUTHORS FIRST BOOK
This book is a Soft Cover in Fine Condition with 232 pages.
SIGNED BY YANN MARTEL
The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Canadian author Yann Martel.
First published as a paperback by Knopf Canada in the spring of 1993, it received little attention outside Canada until 2004, after Martel's award-winning Life of Pi gained worldwide popularity and people became interested in the author's work.
The book is composed of four short stories.
All the stories except Manners of Dying have a distinct auto-biographical feel to them, the protagonist being a young white male university student having an existential crisis.
In these stories, especially the first two, references to other cultural note worthies such as The Little Prince and Almayer's Folly are noticeable. Most of the themes explored in these more youthful works are employed in the inner workings of the Life of Pi.
The four short stories are as follows:
1. The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The title story revolves around a man who, along with a younger friend who is dying of AIDS , invents stories about a family of Italian immigrants living in Helsinki , Finland to help pass the time with his friend.
To organize the plot of their strange attempt at fiction they use Encyclopedia Britannica extracts from each year starting from 1901 until present (1986) metaphorically to write each chapter. That story won the Canadian Journey Price in 1991. In his author's note, Martel states that "Helsinki" was adapted to the stage and to the screen.
2. The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton
This story is about a young man who visits a friend in Washington D.C. The friend works at Price Waterhouse Coopers and is too busy with his demanding job to spend time with his guest.
The young man, by accident, stumbles upon a performance of classical music by Vietnam War veterans and is thrilled by the composer's sheer ingenuity. It ends with an extended conversation with the composer about artistic impulses, work and life.
3. Manners of Dying
In this epistolary novel Mr. Harry Parlington, warden at the Cantos Correctional Institution, writes to a Mrs. Barlow describing how her son, Kevin, executed in prison, experienced and faced his death. But multiple letters describe in totally different details his various "manners" of "dying."
Examples of the chapter titles are: "Manner of Dying 985", "Manner of Dying 760. It is not clear which of those "manners of dying" Kevin Barlow actually experienced (if any) or which was sent to the mother (if any); they are presented with ambiguity, as potential and often conflicting possibilities.
This story was adapted to a film by Jeremy Peter Allen , Manners of Dying . An Australian named Kevin Barlow was sentenced to death by hanging in Malaysia in 1986, for possession of a small quantity of heroin. This caused a ten-year rift between Australia and Malaysia.
4. The Mirror Machine
An anecdotal story about a young man who visits his talkative grandmother and while rummaging in her attic finds a machine that makes mirrors out of 4 ingredients: oil, sand, silver and memories. When she demonstrates the machine to him, he learns about her hurtful past from the memories she tells.
SELF : A NOVEL
By YANN MARTEL ( Author of Life of Pi )
Published by Alfred Knopf Canada Toronto Ontario
Distributed by Random House of Canada
1996 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
This book is a HARDCOVER in FINE CONDITION with 331 pages. The Dust Jacket is in Fine Condition.
His second book, first novel. The debut novel by author.
Self is a novel by Yann Martel. It tells the story of a traveling writer who wakes up one morning to discover that he has become a woman. It was first published by Knopf Canada in 1996. Plot summary == The narrator, at first male, explains various events from his early childhood, living with a traveling family who finally settle in Ottawa , Ontario. He goes on to explain events from his years in private school (including his parents' death), until he graduates and travels to Portugal , where he, on his eighteenth birthday, wakes up as a female.
Surprisingly unfazed by her transformation, the narrator concludes her trip and begins university back in the fictional Roetown. She begins writing, and keeps travel in her life, eventually visiting such places as Spain and Thailand , to name a few. She shares romances with a select few — males and females alike. Eventually she gets published, and after graduating, moves to Montreal, where she gets a job as a waitress while continuing to write. At her job she meets Tito, her final love. But as the novel is nearing a conclusion, she is suddenly raped by a vicious neighbour in her secluded apartment and her body reverts to being a male again. Self was Martel's first novel, which followed the publication in 1993 of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, his first collection of short stories. The novel was shortlisted for the 21st Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award, then Canada's most valuable first-novel award with a prize of 5,000 Canadian dollars.
Martel's novel, Life of Pi, won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and sold seven million copies world
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL : A NOVEL (ARC)
ADVANCE READER'S EDITION
By YANN MARTEL (Author of Life of Pi)
Published by Spiegel & Grau / Random House , New York
2010 First Edition.
This book is a Soft Cover in near fine condition with 212 pages.
Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel.
First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust.
It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader.
Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a taxidermist, who introduces him to the play's protagonists, two taxidermy animals Beatrice, a donkey, and Virgil , a monkey.
Early on in the story, the protagonist makes reference to Primo Levi's If This Is a Man , Art Spiegeleman's Maus ; David Grossman See Under Love ; Martin Amis Time's Arrow ; George Orwell's Animal Farm ; Albert Camus The Plague and Pablo Picasso Guernica. Extracts are the quoted from Flaubert The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator which is discussed at length. Later in the novel , Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot is later discussed along with Samuel Beckett's " Waiting For Godot "
The title is an allusion to two of the main characters in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy .
The Globe and Mail reported that Martel received a $2 million advance from Random House for U.S. rights alone, and that the total advance for worldwide rights was around $3 million, probably the highest ever advance for a single Canadian novel. Martel's earlier novel, Life of Pi, won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and sold seven million copies worldwide.
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL
by YANN MARTEL
Published by
Alfred Knopf
This book is a HARDCOVER in Fine Condition with 212 pages.
The Dust Jacket is in Fine Condition.
Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust.
It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader. Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a taxidermist, who introduces him to the play's protagonists, two taxidermy animals Beatrice, a donkey, and Virgil, a monkey.
Early on in the story, the protagonist makes reference to Primo Levi's If This Is a Man, Art Spiegeleman's Maus ; David Grossman See Under Love ; Martin Amis Time's Arrow ; George Orwell's Animal Farm ; Albert Camus The Plague and Pablo Picasso Guernica.
Extracts are the quoted from Flaubert The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator which is discussed at length. Later in the novel , Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot is later discussed along with Samuel Beckett's " Waiting For Godot " The title is an allusion to two of the main characters in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy .
The Globe and Mail reported that Martel received
a $2 million advance from Random House for
THE FACTS BEHIND : THE HELSINKI ROCCAMATIOS SHORT FICTION
SIGNED by AUTHOR YANN MARTEL
By YANN MARTEL (Author of Life of Pi)
Published by Harcourt, New York 2004 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
AUTHORS FIRST BOOK
This book is a HARDCOVER in very good condition (Pink Highlighting throughout) with 208 pages.
The Dust Jacket is in Fine Condition.
SIGNED BY YANN MARTEL
The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Canadian author Yann Martel.
First published as a paperback by Knopf Canada in the spring of 1993, it received little attention outside Canada until 2004, after Martel's award-winning Life of Pi gained worldwide popularity and people became interested in the author's work.
The book is composed of four short stories.
All the stories except Manners of Dying have a distinct auto-biographical feel to them, the protagonist being a young white male university student having an existential crisis.
In these stories, especially the first two, references to other cultural noteworthies such as The Little Prince and Almayer's Folly are noticeable. Most of the themes explored in these more youthful works are employed in the inner workings of the Life of Pi.
The four short stories are as follows:
1. The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The title story revolves around a man who, along with a younger friend who is dying of AIDS , invents stories about a family of Italian immigrants living in Helsinki , Finland to help pass the time with his friend.
To organize the plot of their strange attempt at fiction they use Encyclopedia Britannica extracts from each year starting from 1901 until present (1986) metaphorically to write each chapter. That story won the Canadian Journey Price in 1991. In his author's note, Martel states that "Helsinki" was adapted to the stage and to the screen.
2. The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton
This story is about a young man who visits a friend in Washington D.C. The friend works at Price Waterhouse Coopers and is too busy with his demanding job to spend time with his guest.
The young man, by accident, stumbles upon a performance of classical music by Vietnam War veterans and is thrilled by the composer's sheer ingenuity. It ends with an extended conversation with the composer about artistic impulses, work and life.
3. Manners of Dying
In this epistolary novel Mr. Harry Parlington, warden at the Cantos Correctional Institution, writes to a Mrs. Barlow describing how her son, Kevin, executed in prison, experienced and faced his death. But multiple letters describe in totally different details his various "manners" of "dying."
Examples of the chapter titles are: "Manner of Dying 985", "Manner of Dying 760. It is not clear which of those "manners of dying" Kevin Barlow actually experienced (if any) or which was sent to the mother (if any); they are presented with ambiguity, as potential and often conflicting possibilities.
This story was adapted to a film by Jeremy Peter Allen , Manners of Dying . An Australian named Kevin Barlow was sentenced to death by hanging in Malaysia in 1986, for possession of a small quantity of heroin. This caused a ten-year rift between Australia and Malaysia.
4. The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company : Mirrors to Last Till Kingdom Come
An anecdotal story about a young man who visits his talkative grandmother and while rummaging in her attic finds a machine that makes mirrors out of 4 ingredients: oil, sand, silver and memories. When she demonstrates the machine to him, he learns about her hurtful past from the memories she tells.
MORE ABOUT == Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author of French Canadian descent best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. It was adapted for a film directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. His first language is French, but he writes in English.
Other works by Martel
1. Seven Stories (1993)
2. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (Collection of four short stories, including the title story) (1993)
3. Self (1996)
4. Life of Pi (2001)
5. We Ate the Children Last (Short story) (2004)
6. Beatrice and Virgil (2010)
7. 101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper (2012) The first 55 book suggestions are available as What is Stephen Harper Reading? (2009)
8. The High Mountains of Portugal (2016)
Awards and Accolades
The High Mountains of Portugal
New York Times Bestseller 2016
Beatrice and Virgil
New York Times Bestseller 2010
Boston Globe Bestseller
L.A. Times Bestseller
Minneapolis Star Tribune Bestseller
National No. 1 Bestseller in Maclean's
No. 1 Bestseller in The Toronto Star
Longlisted for The 2012 International Dublin Literary Award
Financial Times 2010 Fiction of the Year
Life of Pi
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
New York Times Bestseller List 2002–03 (61 weeks)
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature 2002
Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2001
Winner of The Boeke Prize 2003 (South Africa)
Winner of the Deutscher Bücherpreis Deutscher Bücherpreis
List of Winners|2004.
Winner of the La Presse Prix du Grand Public 2003
Winner in the Scene It Read It category of the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2014
A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2001
'The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios' (short story)
Winner of the 1991 Journey Prize
Film adaptations
Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee in 2012 and won a number of awards. Martel makes a brief appearance as an extra, sitting on a park bench across a pond while Irrfan Khan (Pi) and Rafe Spall (playing Yann Martel) converse.
His short story We Ate the Children Last was adapted as an independent film by Andrew Cividino.
Manners of Dying, directed by Jeremy Peter Allen in 2004.
The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Theatrical adaptations
Beatrice and Virgil, adapted by Lindsay Cochrane and directed by Sarah Garton Stanley at the Factory Theatre, Toronto in 2013.
'The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios'
Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Max Webster at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. This adaptation uses puppets manned by the cast to represent the animals from the story. It ran from 28 June to 20 July 2019.
Influences
Martel has said in a number of interviews that Dante's Divine Comedy is the single most impressive book he has ever read. In talking about his most memorable childhood book, he recalls Le Petit Chose by Alphonse Daudet. He said that he read it when he was ten years old, and it was the first time he found a book so heartbreaking that it moved him to tears.
His writing influences include Dante Alighieri, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Nikolai Gogol, Sinclair Lewis, Moacyr Scliar, Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, and Alphonse Daudet. J.M. Coetzee, Knut Hamsun,
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