In-conversation with Aislinn Hunter
Yann Martel’s 2001 philosophical adventure, Life of Pi, was a runaway global phenomenon—it won the Booker Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list, and was adapted to an Oscar-winning film and a Tony-winning play. The Canadian author continued to achieve success with Beatrice and Virgil, The High Mountains of Portugal, and now, his highly anticipated fifth novel: Son of Nobody.
Son of Nobody is a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar. While studying an obscure collection of papyrus fragments, academic Harlow Donne discovers a lost account of the Trojan War. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody. The text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, unfolding “a powerful meditation on life, death, and the vanity of human wishes, all illustrated by a poem that would do Homer proud.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
Don’t miss Yann Martel in Vancouver for one night only at the Lindsay Family Stage (formerly known as the Granville Island Stage), in conversation with award-winning writer and educator Aislinn Hunter, whose most recent book is the bestselling novel The Certainties. Books will be for sale at the event from Book Warehouse, a division of Black Bond Books, with an audience Q+A and book signing after the talk.