Yann Martel

Pi Pattel es un joven que vive en Pondicherry, India, donde su padre es el propietario y encargado del zoológico de la ciudad. A los dieciséis años, su familia decide emigrar a Canadá y procurarse una vida mejor con la venta de los animales. Tras complejos tramites, los Pattel inician una travesia que se vera truncada por la tragedia: una terrible tormenta hace naufragar el barco donde viajaban.En el inmenso oceano Pacifico, una solitaria barcaza de salvamento continua flotando a la deriva con cinco tripulantes: Pi, una hiena, un orangutan, una cebra herida y un enorme macho de tigre de Bengala.Con inteligencia, atrevimiento y, obviamente, miedo, Pi tendra que echar mano del ingenio para mantenerse a salvo y defender su liderazgo frente al unico que, previsiblemente, quedara vivo. Aprovechando su conocimiento casi enciclopedico de la fauna qua habitaba el zoologico, el joven intentara domar a la fiera, demostrar quien es el macho dominante y sobrevivir con este extraordinario compañero de viaje.

One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a 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. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

From the author of the international publishing sensation Life of Pi comes the story of a quest for a lost relic. The journey takes us from Africa in the 1600s through Portugal at the turn of the last century to contemporary North America. Showcasing Martel's trademark delight in the fundamental stories that unite us, The High Mountains of Portugal unfolds with a dazzling lightness of touch. With its intricately woven layers of meaning and all the pleasures and surprises of a good yarn, it is also a beautiful, tender, clear-eyed and heartfelt exploration of love, suffering, faith and evolution. By turns funny, tragic and sublime, The High Mountains of Portugal reminds us that it is our ability to weave remarkable stories out of our spiritual and philosophical concerns that makes us -- and keeps us -- human.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost 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 Bestseller An 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 List An ABA Indie Bestseller

One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a 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. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

Schon in seinem ersten Buch zeigte Yann Martel sein wunderbares Vertrauen in die Kraft des Erzählens. Wenn eine seiner Figuren mit seinem an Aids erkrankten Freund die Geschichte der Familie Roccamatio aus Helsinki erfindet, um ihn am Leben zu halten, weiß er, Erzählen heißt Atmen. Oder wenn der Vietman-Veteran und Büroreinigungsfachmann ein Konzert für Streicher schreibt, um seiner "dissonanten Violine" einen Heldenpart zu geben, erzählt er gleichzeitig davon, wie seine Geige die Tage im Krieg erträglich gemacht haben. Immer geht es in den Geschichten um den schmalen Spalt des Möglichen, den nur ein Erzähler entdeckt, um die zarte Farbe der Humanität. Der Band erschien 1994 im Verlag Volk und Welt unter dem Titel "Aller Irrsinn dieses Seins". Für die Neuübersetzung hat Yann Martel die Texte überarbeitet.

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Canongate publishers has released a new edition of the bestselling novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which won the the Man Booker Prize in 2002. The new Life of Pi edition is already climbing the book charts following promotions with booksellers and an advertising campaign.

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pia 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.

Un escenari blau: el Pacífic.Una taca blanca: un bot.Dins, un petit món.La Història de Pi és l'aventura d'un noi indi de 16 anys que es va passar 227 dies en una barca salvavides amb l'única companyi

Lisbonne, 1904. Frappé par le deuil, Tomas décide de tourner le dos au monde - littéralement : il ne marche plus qu''à reculons. Obsédé par un étrange petit livre datant du XVIIe siècle - le journal

Una novela extraordinaria del autor de "Vida de Pi"."Las altas montañas de Portugal" es una novela de investigación y de fantasmas y al tiempo una fábula contemporánea que ofrece una exploración inquietante sobre el amor y la perdida. Llena de ternura, humor y grandes sorpresas, lleva al lector en un viaje por carretera a traves de Portugal a lo largo del ultimo siglo y medio de historia. Un viaje que, a la postre, recorrera el alma humana.En Lisboa, en 1904, un joven llamado Tomas descubre una vieja revista. En ella se alude a la existencia de un objeto extraordinario que, si lo encontrara, podria redefinir la historia. Viaja en uno de los primeros automoviles de Europa en busca de ese extraño tesoro. Treinta y cinco años mas tarde, una investigadora portuguesa dedicada a las novelas de Agatha Christie se encuentra inmersa en el centro de un misterio que le lleva a las pesquisas de Tomas. Cincuenta años despues, un senador canadiense se refugia en su pueblo ancestral en el norte de Portugal, en duelo por la perdida de su amada esposa. Sin embargo, llega con un compañero inusual: un chimpance. Alli vuelve a aparecer el caso de Tomas, con unas conclusiones inesperadas.Quince años despues de "Vida de Pi", Yann Martel nos lleva a otro largo viaje. Los lectores de aquella novela, ganadora del premio Booker, reconoceran elementos comunes, pero el itinerario en este imaginativo nuevo libro es totalmente nuevo y fresco La escritura de Martel nunca ha sido mas cautivadora.Ron Charles, The Washington Post

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tom's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. The High Mountains of Portugal --part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable--offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss