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, in a new deluxe edition of the acclaimed novel. 50,000 first printing.
Life of Pi, Deluxe Illustrated Edition by Yann Martel, Tomislav Torjanac
Yann Martel's Life of Pi has been published in forty countries and has sold over four million copies worldwide. He currently lives in Saskatoon, Canada, where he is at work on a new novel.
Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 and lives in the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan. Life of Pi, his second novel, was published to international acclaim in more than forty countries and won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. He is currently working on a new novel.
Tomislav Torjanac was born in 1972 in Croatia, where he lives and works as a freelance illustrator. In 2006, he won the international competition to find an illustrator for this new edition of Life of Pi. Amongst other things, he's done many book covers and illustrated a few children's books, including James Joyce's The Cat and the Devil.
Publisher: Harcourt; 1st [illustrated] edition (October 7, 2007)
Language: English
Hardcover: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0151013837
ISBN-13: 9780151013838
Item Weight: 2.55 pounds
Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 10 inchesBISAC Categories:
books - Fiction | Action & Adventure
books - Fiction | Literary
-Pacific Ocean -Storytelling
-Teenage boys -Ocean travel
-Zoo animals -Orphans
-Tigers -Psychological fiction
-Adventure fiction -Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
-Human-animal relationships
- Cultural Region | Japanese
- Cultural Region | Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation | New Mexico
OCLC Number: OCLC#154690024
Dewey: FIC
LC Call Number: PS3568.O243
Lexile Level: 830