Book description
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains
bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are
a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a
female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Since it was
first published in 2002, Life of Pi has entered mainstream consciousness
and remains one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent
years. In October 2005 Canongate launched a competition with The Times
to find an artist to illustrate Yann Martel's international bestseller.
Soon the competition expanded as the Globe and Mail and The Age
newspapers also launched a search in Canada and Australia. From
thousands of entries, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen as
the illustrator for this new edition of Life of Pi. Now readers can
enjoy this extraordinary tale with his glorious colour illustrations.
Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After
studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelled
before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally
acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, as well as the
novel Self, the stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and
the collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada What is
Stephen Harper Reading?. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
