Yann Martel
13 May 2026
7:30pm, Wednesday 13th May 2026
Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
Mark your literary calendars: Yann Martel, beloved and critically acclaimed author of the Booker-winning novel Life of Pi, is back with his first book in a decade. In Son of Nobody, a classics scholar discovers a lost account of the Trojan War that unlocks both a new historical perspective and a profound personal meditation on love, ambition and grief. Son of Nobody is vintage Martel, elegantly weaving its dual narrative with astute philosophical reflections on the echoes between fact and fable, myth and memory.
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