Like Life of Pi Beatrice and Virgil uses animals to discuss the human condition in this case to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys a novelist and a taxidermist who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original the novel asks enduring questions about…
Age range: 10 years. Summary: When we last saw Oliver and Celia Navel, they had fallen into the clutches of Sir Edmund S. Titheltorpe-Schmidt III and were doomed to spend their entire summer vacation doing his deadly bidding. In their second unwanted adventure, We Dine with Cannibals, Oliver and Celia will travel from the ruins of ancient temples to the shadowy forests of the Amazon. They'll ne…
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together arduos climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift to "unmaking" a violent talent shared by members of his family, he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.