Life Of Pi
Life Of Pi
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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.
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Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
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.
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 * *
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 * *
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.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781841952833 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841952834 |
| Titre | Life Of Pi |
| Auteur | Yann Martel |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Canongate Books |
| Année de publication | 2002-05-09 |
| Nombre de pages | 320 |
| Prix | Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2002 (UK), Short-listed for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2013 (UK) |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
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