![]() 7 as part of BookFest at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Martel will join New Republic senior editor Ruth Franklin in a discussion about Holocaust fiction at 12:30 p.m. To the contrary, his dark, twisting allegory about the Holocaust has been trounced by literary critics and makes for emotionally wrenching reading. “Beatrice and Virgil,” Martel’s new novel, has met no such embrace. It won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2002, along with numerous other awards. “Pi,” the story of a boy and a 450-pound Bengal tiger adrift at sea on a lifeboat, struck a universal chord. But his second, “Life of Pi,” catapulted the Spanish-born Canadian author into the major leagues: The 2001 novel spent 57 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list, has been translated into 41 languages and has sold more than 7 million copies. ![]() Yann Martel’s first novel sold 1,000 copies. ![]()
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