| ID | 015671 |
| Call Number | 813.54/MAR |
| Title Proper | Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Martel, Yann |
| Publication | Orlando, Harcourt Inc., 2004. |
| Description | xi, 208p Black spine |
| Note | Here are four stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Vita AEterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last till Kingdom Come," is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine that runs on memories and fashions a unique reflection of his relationship with his grandmother. |
| Note | The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The time I heard the Private Donald J.Rankin String Concerto with one discordant violin, by the American Composer John Morton
Manners of Dying
The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company : Mirrors to last till kingdom come |
| Standard Number | 9780151010905 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.200(Hb) |
| Classification Number | 813.54 |
| Key Words | Short stories ; Death - Fiction ; Music - Fiction ; War stories ; IBDP ; Memory - Fiction ; American literature in English ; Death and dying |