Yann Martel — Son of Nobody at the Southbank Centre
Life of Pi author Yann Martel discusses his new novel Son of Nobody, described as a masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity.
Why we picked this
Martel's first novel in years — and early descriptions suggest he is reaching for something even more ambitious than Life of Pi.
Yann Martel, whose Life of Pi became one of the most beloved novels of the twenty-first century, returns with Son of Nobody, a book that early readers are calling a masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity. He appears at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room to discuss the new work and the long creative journey that produced it.
Martel is a writer who works slowly and ambitiously, and each of his novels has attempted something structurally and thematically different from the last. Son of Nobody continues that pattern, weaving together intimate domestic life and the largest questions about how we make meaning.
Tickets from fifteen pounds plus booking fee. The Purcell Room is an intimate space, making this a genuinely close encounter with one of the world’s most distinctive novelists.