Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing 'From the Hardcover edition.'' Product Details Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize winning novel 'Life of Pi,' which was translated into thirty-eight languages and spent fifty-seven weeks on the 'New York Times' bestseller list. After studying philosophy at university, he worked odd jobs and traveled before turning to writing at the age of twenty-six. It will convince the most jaded among us and remind the rest that something grander is afoot in our lives than we may have realized. Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi' is a transformative novel: a book to delight in, to talk about and treasure. With intelligence, daring and inexpressible fear, Pi manages to keep his wits about him as the animals begin to assert their places in the foodchain it is the tiger, Richard Parker, with whom he must develop an inviolable understanding. In it are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. A solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the surface of the wild blue Pacific. When the parents decide to emigrate to Canada, the family boards a cargo ship with many of the animals that are going to new zoological homes in North America, and bravely sets sail for the New World.Īlas, the ship sinks. He devours books on Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, and to the surprise of his secular parents, becomes devoted to all three religions.

Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi, lives in Pondicherry, India, where his family runs a zoo. 'The Jungle Book 'meets 'Not Wanted On the Voyage' in a triumph of storytelling and originality: a novel, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

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