After the book is rejected, Henry stops writing and moves with his wife from Canada to Europe.
He spends five years writing a "flip book" on this subject - a book in which one half is fiction, the other half nonfiction, with two front covers. Henry, the narrator, is an author not unlike Martel, with a recent literary success, and worldwide fans, and a desire to write about the Holocaust in a new way (he mentions Orwell's Animal Farm as one model). With his follow-up, Beatrice and Virgil, Martel is back with another parable involving animals, this time with mixed results. Canadian author Yann Martel's second novel, Life of Pi - a parable in which an Indian zookeeper's son named Pi Patel and a 450-pound Bengal tiger manage to survive for 227 days on a lifeboat - was an international phenomenon, winning Britain's 2002 Man Booker award and selling millions of copies worldwide.
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