What Is Stephen Harper Reading?

I know youre very busy, Mr. Harper. Were all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, before we fall asleep.From the author of Life of Pi comes a literary correspondence recommendations to Canadas Prime Minister of great short books that will inspire and delight book lovers and book club readers across our nation.Every two weeks since April 16th, 2007, Yann Martel has mailed Stephen Harper a book along with a letter. These insightful, provocative letters detailing what he hopes the Prime Minister may take from the books by such writers as Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Stephen Galloway are collected here together. The one-sided correspondence (Mr. Harpers office has only replied once) becomes a meditation on reading and writing and the necessity to allow ourselves to expand stillness in our lives, even if were not head of government.From the Trade Paperback edition.