Yann Martel

The author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a story about love, loss, and faith that take us on a mesmerizing journey through the last century. Told in three intersecting narratives--part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary realism--the novel begins in the early 1900s, when a young man named Tomás discovers in the archives of Lisbon an ancient journal describing an extraordinary artifact that he believes will challenge the church's understanding of religion forever and sets out for the High Mountains of Portugal in search of it. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie is drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest as he finds himself at the center of a murder story. And fifty years after that, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories come together. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, Yann Martel's new novel offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss, asking questions about faith and the lack of faith that are at the heart of all his novels. From the Hardcover edition.

The High Mountains of Portugal

Back in its original, iconic livery, the dazzling, thought-provoking novel that won the Man Booker Prize and became an international phenomenon.

A Novel

Life of Pi

Deluxe Pocket Edition

We Ate the Children Last

Manfred Allié

Gabriele Kempf-Allié

Schiffbruch mit Tiger? Diese Geschichte würden Sie nicht glauben? Kein Wunder. Fantastisch. Verwegen. Atemberaubend. Wahnsinnig komisch. Eine Geschichte, die Sie an Gott glauben lässt. Pi Patel, der Sohn eines indischen Zoobesitzers und praktizierender Hi

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Schiffbruch mit Tiger

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Pi lives in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns the city's zoo. The family decides to emigrate to Canada, but tragedy strikes at sea. In the lifeboat are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan & a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLost in Portugal. Lost to grief.With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.A New York Times BestsellerAn Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller#1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List#1 on Maclean's Bestseller List#1 on National Post's Bestseller List#1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller ListAn ABA Indie Bestseller

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حياة باي

Filho do administrador do jardim zoológico de Pondicherry, na Índia, Pi Patel possui um conhecimento enciclopédico sobre animais e uma visão da vida muito peculiar. Quando Pi tem dezasseis anos, a família emigra para a América do Norte num navio cargueiro juntamente com os habitantes do zoo. Porém, o navio afunda-se e Pi vê-se na imensidão do Pacífico, a bordo de um salva-vidas, acompanhado de uma hiena, um orangotango, uma zebra ferida e um tigre de Bengala. Em breve restarão apenas Pi e o tigre, e a única esperança de sobreviverem é descobrirem que ambos precisam um do outro.

A vida di Pi

This story of love, sex and ambiguity is the first novel by the Canadian author of the award-winning Life of Pi

Self

Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been. Among the hundreds of stuffed animals are Beatrice and Virgil- a monkey and a donkey, they are also the characters in a play the taxidermist is writing. When the taxidermist asks Henry for help with the play, he is drawn in. But what is the play actually about? What have the animals suffered at the hands of the author? Who is he? And what does he really want from Henry? With the imaginative reach and spirit that helped Life of Pidelight over seven million readers around the world, Beatrice and Virgil asks profound questions about violence, kindness, and the power of stories to change us.

Beatrice and Virgil

Berättelsen om Pi

Het leven van Pi vertelt het ongelooflijke verhaal van Piscine Patel (Pi), een zestienjarige Indiase jongen wiens vader een dierentuin in India heeft. Wanneer de familie besluit het land te verlaten, wordt de hele dierentuin ingescheept. Maar het schip vergaat en de enige overlevenden op de reddingssloep zijn Pi, een hyena, een zebra met een gebroken been en een tijger van 200 kilo. 227 dagen dobbert de sloep over de Grote Oceaan - het decor voor een buitengewoon fantasierijke roman. Dit verhaal doet je in God geloven, aldus een personage. Dat gaat misschien wat ver, maar wie Het leven van Pi leest, móet wel geloven in de onverwoestbare kracht van verhalen. Yann Martel (1963) werd geboren in Spanje en woont in Montreal, Canada. Hij is de auteur van De geschiedenis van de Roccamatios uit Helsinki en de autobiografische roman Zelf. Het leven van Pi won de Man Booker Prize 2002. Het leven van Pi is een fantastisch boek. Het is fris, origineel, slim, geraffineerd en vol van bezielde liefde. margaret atwood Het leven van Pi laat ons geloven in de verbeeldingskracht van de literatuur, in de noodzaak van het betere verhaal. stine jensen, nrc handelsblad Pi = 3,141... en Yann Martel = God. arie storm, het parool Precair evenwicht tussen spel en ernst, fantasie en realisme, een immer verrassende, frisse stijl. kristien hemmerechts, vrij nederland

Het leven van Pi

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.

Życie Pi

António Pescada

A vida de Pi: romance

"I know you're very busy, Mr. Harper. We're all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, before we fall asleep." From the author of Life of Pi comes a literary correspondence -- recommendations to Canada's Prime Minister of great short books that will inspire and delight book lovers and book club readers across our nation. Every two weeks since April 16th, 2007, Yann Martel has mailed Stephen Harper a book along with a letter. These insightful, provocative letters detailing what he hopes the Prime Minister may take from the books -- by such writers as Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Stephen Galloway -- are collected here together. The one-sided correspondence (Mr. Harper's office has only replied once) becomes a meditation on reading and writing and the necessity to allow ourselves to expand stillness in our lives, even if we're not head of government.

Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister (and Book Lovers of All Stripes)

What is Stephen Harper Reading?

Christophe Bernard

Les Hautes Montagnes du Portugal

This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.

De vondst in 1904 in Lissabon van een dagboek uit 1631 dat een schat beschrijft, heeft grote gevolgen.

Yann Martel

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