Canongate has signed a deal with Life of Pi author Yann Martel, for an allegorical tale about the Holocaust, the Sunday Times has reported.
As with his 2002 Man Booker-winning novel, the new book will include animals as key characters, as “Henry, a writer, strikes up a friendship with a taxidermist who is writing a play about the animals”.
The article added that the book would make comparisons with Dante’s Inferno: the working title features eponymous heroes Beatrice, a donkey, and a monkey, Virgil, reflecting Dante's The Divine Comedy, which included Virgil as his guide through Hell and Beatrice through Heaven.
"I've noticed over years of reading books on the Holocaust that it's nearly always represented the same way—historical or social realism." said Martel. "I think writers have been fearful of letting the imagination loose on the Holocaust. My novel is an attempt to see if there is a way of talking about the Holocaust without talking about it literally."
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