Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0156027321
ISBN-13: 9780156027328

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2004-05-03
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0156030209
ISBN-13: 9780156030205

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2002
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676973779
ISBN-13: 9780676973778

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Harcourt
Keywords: illustrated, deluxe, life
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-10-07
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0151013837
ISBN-13: 9780151013838

Life of Pi, first published in 2002, became an international bestseller and remains one of the most extraordinary and popular works of contemporary fiction.In 2005 an international competition was held to find the perfect artist to illustrate Yann Martel s Man Booker Prize winning novel. From thousands of entrants, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen. This lavishly produced edition features forty of Torjanac s beautiful four-color illustrations, bringing Life of Pi to splendid, eye-popping life. Tomislav Torjanac says of his illustrations: My vision of the illustrated edition of Life

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0394281772
ISBN-13: 9780394281773

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Keywords: novel, virgil, beatrice
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1400069262
ISBN-13: 9781400069262

Fate takes many forms. . . .  When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and

Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: roccamatios, helsinki, facts
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2005-09-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156032457
ISBN-13: 9780156032452

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel’s career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. Variations of a warden’s letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. A young man’s fascination with the