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Description for Life Of Pi
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on endpapers and minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841953922
SKU
KSS0007963
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born in Spain but currently lives in Montreal. He is the hugely acclaimed author of Self, a novel, and of the story collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios. Yann's delight of a novel, Life of Pi, is his third book and was the winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It was also ... Read more
Reviews for Life Of Pi
Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy
The Times
A terrific book . . . fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore
Margaret Atwood
Sunday Times
A unique and original story, brilliantly told
Guardian
Full ... Read more
The Times
A terrific book . . . fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore
Margaret Atwood
Sunday Times
A unique and original story, brilliantly told
Guardian
Full ... Read more