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Mar 27, 2009
This is the 50th (wow!) of a series of titles selected by writer Yann Martel to provide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to encourage an appreciation of the arts and literature in particular in the PM, and to also help him with his stillness and thoughtfulness. Martel has regularly sent books from a wide range of literary traditions to Harper, and has devoted a Web site to the book list and his kind and considered covering letters with each volume. Stephen Harper would benefit doubly from reading this book - it's an elegant profile of a thoughtful writer and observer of social behaviour, by a beloved Canadian author.