Before the lights come up, a man (Jacques Mindreau) emerges from the wings with a flashlight and a violin, plays a brief tune in the near dark, and then exits. A second man (Anthony Black), our narrator, enters to tell the story of his chance encounter with a piece of music in an abandoned theatre […]
Yann Martel
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Martel’s sense of history
On April Fool’s Day, Yann Martel and I played phone tag. After punching in the 15-digit phone number, the answering machine of a London publishing company picked up several times over. I thought the joke was on me. Finally, we connected. Days before he begins his North American book tour, Martel is in England with […]
