'I was hundreds of miles from landfall, if not over a thousand miles. I couldn't swim such a distance, even with a lifebuoy. What would I eat? What would I drink? How would I keep the sharks away?' After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacif[...]

Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun 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. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary li[...]

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrate[...]

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrate[...]

MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION COPIES SOLD"New York Times" Bestseller * "Los Angeles Times" Bestseller * "Washington Post" Bestseller * "San Francisco Chronicle" Bestseller * "Chicago Tribune" Bestseller"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review "[...]

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[...]

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 t[...]

Martel's novel tells the story of the amazing journey of Pi - short for Piscine - an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself th[...]

One boy, one boat, one tiger...

The dazzling follow-up to the million-copy bestselling LIFE OF PI

Historien om Pi er en hyllest til fantasien og en fortellerkunst av et så sjeldent kaliber at den “vil få deg til å tro på Gud,” for å si det med juryen som tildelte romanen Bookerprisen for 2002. Hva mer kan en leser be om?

Etter det tragiske forliset til et lasteskip, sei[...]