Life of Pi (First Edition; First Printing - Signed, Uniquely Inscribed, Dated one month after publication release)

Martel, Yann

ISBN 10: 0676973760 / ISBN 13: 9780676973761

Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, ON, 2001

About this Item

A fine, Canadian, first edition and first printing copy; 2002 Man Booker Prize winner. This copy is signed on the title page by Yann Martel and inscribed, "To, .Writing and boats are a great combination." Also dated and placed on the title page, "Toronto Oct, 23rd, 2001". The book was published September 11, 2001. The dust jacket has the Writers' Trust Of Canada 25th Anniversary sticker on the front. In very collectible condition. Early dated. The Canadian first edition and first printing, signed, is very scarce. Dated in the year of publication, signed and uniquely inscribed by Yann Martel makes this copy especially scarce.

Seller Inventory # 001984

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life of Pi (First Edition; First Printing - Signed, Uniquely Inscribed, Dated one month after publication release)
• Publisher: Knopf Canada, Toronto, ON
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0676973760
• ISBN 13: 9780676973761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Jungle Book meets Not Wanted On the Voyage in a triumph of storytelling and originality: a novel, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi, lives in Pondicherry, India, where his family runs a zoo. Little Pi is a great reader. He devours books on Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, and to the surprise of his secular parents, becomes devoted to all three religions. When the parents decide to emigrate to Canada, the family boards a cargo ship with many of the animals that are going to new zoological homes in North America, and bravely sets sail for the New World.

Alas, the ship sinks. A solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the surface of the wild blue Pacific. In it are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

With intelligence, daring and inexpressible fear, Pi manages to keep his wits about him as the animals begin to assert their places in the foodchain; it is the tiger, Richard Parker, with whom he must develop an inviolable understanding.

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is a transformative novel: a book to delight in, to talk about and treasure. It will convince the most jaded among us – and remind the rest – that something grander is afoot in our lives than we may have realized.

About the Author

Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of peripatetic Canadian parents. He grew up in Alaska, British Columbia, Costa Rica, France, Ontario and Mexico, and has continued travelling as an adult, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University and while doing various odd jobs -- tree planting, dishwashing, working as a security guard -- he began to write. He is the prize-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, and of Self, a novel, both of them published internationally.

His latest book, Life of Pi, won the 2002 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Governor’s General Award and is an international bestseller. He has been living from his writing since the age of 27. He divides his time between yoga, writing and volunteering in a palliative care unit.

Yann Martel lives in Montreal.