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9780151013838

Life of Pi

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  • ISBN13:

    9780151013838

  • ISBN10:

    0151013837

  • Edition: Illus.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-10-01
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

"Will the tiger be menacing; will the ocean be threatening; will the island be something out ofFrankensteinor will it be an Eden?"--Yann Martel Life of Pi,first published in 2002, became an international bestseller and remains one of the most extraordinary and popular works of contemporary fiction. In 2005 an international competition was held to find the perfect artist to illustrate Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel. From thousands of entrants, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen. This lavishly produced edition features forty of Torjanac's beautiful four-color illustrations, bringingLife of Pito splendid, eye-popping life. Tomislav Torjanac says of his illustrations: "My vision of the illustrated edition ofLife of Piis based on paintings from a first person's perspective--Pi's perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc."

Author Biography

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.

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