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Description for Life of Pi
Paperback. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841952833
SKU
KJE0003231
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Yann Martel
Besides Life of Pi, Yann Martel is the author of a collection of short stories, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a novel, Self, and a forthcoming collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada, What is Stephen Harper Reading? Life of Pi is being adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. Yann Martel's next book will be out in 2010. He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Reviews for Life of Pi
Yann Martel is a vivid and entrancing story-teller.
Sunday Telegraph
An inventive, shocking and ultimately uplifting story.
Daily Mail
In its subject and its style, this enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder: a willed innocence that produces a fresh, sideways look at our habitual assumptions, about religious divisions, or zoos versus the wild, or the possibility of freedom. As Martel promises in his author's note, this is fiction probing the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to 'bring out its essence'
Justine Jordan
Guardian
Yann Martel's third work of fiction, Life of Pi, is a terrific book. It's fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore. . . Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn. . . Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival - a boys' adventure for grownups.
Margaret Atwood
Sunday Times
Here is a writer with a talent as fabulous as the tale that he - and his Pi - have to tell.
Spectator
Sunday Telegraph
An inventive, shocking and ultimately uplifting story.
Daily Mail
In its subject and its style, this enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder: a willed innocence that produces a fresh, sideways look at our habitual assumptions, about religious divisions, or zoos versus the wild, or the possibility of freedom. As Martel promises in his author's note, this is fiction probing the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to 'bring out its essence'
Justine Jordan
Guardian
Yann Martel's third work of fiction, Life of Pi, is a terrific book. It's fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore. . . Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn. . . Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival - a boys' adventure for grownups.
Margaret Atwood
Sunday Times
Here is a writer with a talent as fabulous as the tale that he - and his Pi - have to tell.
Spectator