Life of Pi (Man Booker Prize) - Hardcover

"Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master."
--Publishers Weekly"Publishers Weekly" (04/08/2002)

"[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life."
--Gary Krist"The New York Times Book Review" (07/07/2002)

"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."
--Francie Lin"Los Angeles Times Book Review" (06/16/2002)

"Beautifully fantastical and spirited."
--Suzy Hansen"Salon" (08/01/2002)

"If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender."
--Charlotte Innes"The Nation" (08/19/2002)

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

"Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel."--L'Humanité

"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
"If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.'--The Nation
"Beautifully fantastical and spirited." -- Salon

"Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." --Publishers Weekly

"[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

"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 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the novels of H. G. Wells, certain stretches of Moby Dick."--Quill & Quire

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. 40,000 first printing.