Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition | Yann Martel

Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition | Yann Martel | An amazing story

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	Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition Yann Martel Harcourt, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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, bringing Life of Pi to splendid, eye-popping life.

Tomislav Torjanac says of his illustrations: My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is 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.

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One terrific read!

I don't know what to add about this book.
It is based on a true story,the central character is now a Canadian citizen, one fact I can add to anyone who bothers to read my reveiw.He is alive,living in the midwest,and about 5 years younger than myself.
If you love pictorial allegories,and appreciate the wizard of Oz, or Alice through the looking glass,then this is your next book to read.
I love Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood,and Arthur c. Clark, and Rawling's Harry Potter series.
This is an extroardinary book.It is not like anything I read before,including the abovementioned.
I bought my first copy of this book in a Toronto airport in 2003;I began reading it in the plane,I was headed for Madrid,and when I got there,I boarded a bus to take me through town,past juan miro and picasso and other Spanish artists' work on display in public boulevards...
It was 7 AM ,when I arrived in Madrid. I looked at the outdoor art on boulevards between reading snatches of the last chapters of this book.
I was annoyed to be told by the tour guide to observe works by Miro(may God forgive me!)and ,the guy called Bigassole.ahem.Picasso. This story kept me awake for 14 hours,and I was not tired in the least.
Maybe Barcelona is the only place that could divert my eyes off the pages of this book.
Maybe.
But it didn't work for me in 2003...I read this book,cover to cover,for about 16 hours.
I wanted to find out how this Indian teenager survived the Pacific ocean,with a tiger on board, no food or fresh water.
He did.
good thing I finished it before hitting Barcelona.
One of the best of the best books written.It's Darwin,Jung,Freud,Kahil Gibran,with a touch of Ekhart Tolle.

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An amazing story

This is a truly beautifully written book and an amazing story. I love animals and this story provides such a wealth of fascinating insight into animal behaviour. I know it is not a new publication, but this made no difference to the tale, plus the illustrations are wonderful. What a great value also - I know I will be re-reading this time after time.

A terrific novel!

Life of Pi by Yann Martel is an exciting, mouth dropping, gruesome, adventurous, hard to put down novel. It is about a 16-year-old Indian boy named Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel who lives in Pondicherry, India. Since his father was a zookeeper, Pi learned a great deal about animal behavior and habits. Much to the dismay of his parents, when Pi became older he was very open to different religions. Already a Hindu, he also became a Christian and a Muslim, saying he just wanted to be able to pray to God.

Eventually Pi's father decides to sell their home and move the family to Canada, and sells most of the animals to zoos in America. So on June 21, 1977, with only a small amount of animals, Pi and his family rode on a Japanese cargo ship, called the Tsimtsum, which partway through their trip the ship sinks. The only survivors were Pi, a female orangutan, a hungry hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all in a 26-foot lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While the tiger was kept out of sight under a tarp, the relentless hyena continued to inflict pain upon the zebra, and then mercilessly killed the orangutan. The tiger ended up devouring the hyena, which left Pi alone with this carnivore.

Now Pi had to put forth all the energy he had into surviving. He had to figure out what to do with Richard Parker, the source of his fear. He decides to try and tame the tiger. Is that really possible? Can someone tame a full-grown Bengal tiger? Pi was up for the challenge. His life depended on it.

Finally they reached land--an edible algae-covered island. The home of hundreds of meerkats, this island was actually "carnivorous". After spending a few days on the island, Pi realized that at night this island became highly acidic, and quickly left.

So did Pi survive? After 227 days at sea, did he reach land inhabited with people? Or did he die at the claws of Richard Parker? To find out you must read this book. If you read between the lines you will be able to see that the author was portraying the fear that Pi felt through the tiger. Martel did a great job with so much detail that I felt I was there in the lifeboat with Pi. Grotesque in places, I do not recommend this book to children, but if you're longing for something that will take you out of the real world and into a world where you don't know what's real and what's imagination, then this is the book for you.

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a classic illustrated

Yan Martell's destined-to-be-a-classic Life of Pi is a wonderful read by itself. But coupled with the excellent illustrations in this volume, the story is enhanced by images from the perspective of the protagonist. If you've already read the book and liked it, get *this* version for your personal library. If you haven't read it and want to do so someday, then don't wait and get this version now.

Great book, great edition

I love The Life of Pi, originally released in 2002 written by Yann Martel, is arguably one of the best books of the modern era. I have read this book half a dozen times and each time I read it I respect it more. Read this book now, I don't want to spoil it by saying any more.

This new Deluxe Illustrated edition is published with over three dozen images that illustrate the story. I'm not an art critic, but I like the included illustrations, ehe art is colorful and complements the story well.

If you are looking for your first copy, I recommend this illustrated edition.

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