Life of Pi - by Yann Martel (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction</b> <p/>Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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 lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them the truth. After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?<br><i>Life of Pi</i> is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER <br>MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION COPIES SOLD</p><p><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller * <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller * <i>Washington Post</i> Bestseller * <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Bestseller * <i>Chicago Tribune</i> Bestseller </p><p>"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction." <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review </i></p><p>"Nothing short of miraculous. It's an adventure tale so filled with love for the animal kingdom that it ought to roar." <i>Denver Post </i></p><p>"Although the book reverberates with echoes from sources as disparate at <i>Robinson Crusoe</i> and Aesop's fables, the work it most strongly recalls is Ernest Hemingway's own foray into existentialist parable, <i>The Old Man and the Sea</i>." <i>The New York Times Book Review </i></p><p>"A fantastical tale." <i>USA Today</i></p><p>"A real adventure: brutal, tender, expressive, dramatic, and disarmingly funny." <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><p>"Readers familiar with Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Carol Shields should learn to make room on the map of contemporary Canadian fiction for the formidable Yann Martel." <i>Chicago Tribune</i></p><p>"Fantastic in nearly every sense of the word, <i>Life of Pi</i> is a gripping adventure story, a parable about the place of human beings in the universe and a tantalizing work of metafiction . . . Laced with wit, spiced with terror, it's a book by an extraordinary talent." <i>San Jose Mercury News </i></p><p>"If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender." <i>The Nation</i></p><p> "<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction</b> <p/>Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel.--<i>L'Humanité</i> <p/>A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br>"If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.'--The Nation <br>Beautifully fantastical and spirited. -- Salon <p/>Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master. --Publishers Weekly <p/>[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life. -- The New York Times Book Review <p/>Audacious, exhilarating . . . wonderful. The book's middle section might be the most gripping 200 pages in recent Canadian fiction. It also stands up against some of Martel's more obvious influences: Edgar Allen Poe's <i>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym</i>, the novels of H. G. Wells, certain stretches of <i>Moby Dick</i>.--<i>Quill & Quire </i><br><br><br>[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life.<br>--Gary Krist "The New York Times Book Review" (7/7/2002 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel.<br>--Francie Lin "Los Angeles Times Book Review" (6/16/2002 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Beautifully fantastical and spirited.<br>--Suzy Hansen "Salon" (8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.<br>--Charlotte Innes "The Nation" (8/19/2002 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master.<br>--Publishers Weekly "Publishers Weekly" (4/8/2002 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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