Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 9781841953922

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.

As the "crew" begin to assert their natural places in the food chain, Pi's fear mounts, and he must use all his wit and daring to develop an understanding with his fellow survivors.

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.

REVIEWS

'impressive enough to make you, as the old man said, believe in God.Martel has hit on a marvellous notion and revels in elaborating it.The story positively sparkles with originality.' Scotsman

'Absurd, macabre, unreliable and sad, deeply sensual in its evoking of smells and sights, the whole trip and the narrator's insanely curious voice (which evokes and intellectual humming-bird compelled to sip deep from every possible blossom) suggests Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie hallucinating together over the meaning of The Old Man and the Sea and Gulliver's Travels.' Financial Times

'An extraordinary novel.' New York Times

'It is a story so magical, so playful, so harrowing and astonishing. Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy.' The Times

Format	BC - Paperback
Binding	B105 - B-format paperback
Number of pages	384
Unit weight	234 Grams