Life of Pi - Brossura

Martel, Yann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544103750 ISBN 13: 9780544103757

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013

Riassunto

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.

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Praise for LIFE OF PI:

"Extraordinary . . . Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life. . . . Although the book reverberates with echoes from sources as disparate at Robinson Crusoe and Aesop's fables, the work it most strongly recalls is Ernest Hemingway's own foray into existentialist parable, The Old Man and the Sea." -- The New York Times Book Review

"An impassioned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventure a la Kon-Tiki, and a hilarious shaggy-dog story . . . : This audacious novel manages to be all of these." -- The New Yorker

"Life of Pi is a real adventure: brutal, tender, expressive, dramatic, and disarmingly funny. . . . It's difficult to stop reading when the pages run out." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"One encounters page after page of images and observations riveting in their precision and insight. . . . 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

"One of the strangest but most approachable novels in years. . . . Pi mixes yarn, fable, and morality tale." - The Economist

"Already a bestseller in Canada. Think: comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" on a lifeboat with an overt religious theme." --Wall Street Journal (Editor's Pick)

L'autore:

Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. He is also the author of the novels Beatrice and Virgil and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to the prime minister of Canada, 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0544103750
• ISBN 13: 9780544103757
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 401