Books of The Times: Yann Martel’s ‘Beatrice and Virgil,’ a Holocaust Allegory
Yann Martel’s misconceived and offensive new novel parses the tragic fate of its title characters, two animals in a taxidermy shop, “through the tragic fate of Jews.”
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 April, 2010
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