Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil, a good read

Finished this little book, Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil, sent by Random House's Rochelle Clark a few weeks ago.  It's unusual and unique - consider this - Beatrice is a donkey and Virgil is a howler monkey.  And if some kind of hell comes to mind with those two names, well, this book takes you into a kind of hell - torture, pain, starvation, desolation, despair, destruction, death.  Not nice the kind of things we suffer upon each other.  Martel's book again reminds us of our humanity and the things that we are capable of.  A goody.  Go here for Beatrice and Virgil's own web site - you get to meet them.