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Life Of Pi
Canongate Books 2002; US$ 10.82One 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... more...
Self
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 7.28From the author of Life of Pi, comes an edgy, funny and devastating novel. Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in... more...
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Canongate Books 2013; US$ 10.82This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience. From the last hours of a condemned man, to the imaginary life of an AIDS patient, to the first performance of a bizarre new symphony, Yann Martel's stories are moving, thought-provoking and as inventive in form as they are timeless in... more...
Beatrice and Virgil
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00BONUS: This edition contains a Beatrice and Virgil discussion guide. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey?named Beatrice and... more...
Beatrice & Virgil
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 22.00Henry?s second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well. Yann Martel?s astonishing new novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a ?flip book? that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because... more...
What Is Stephen Harper Reading?
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 21.00?I know you?re very busy, Mr. Harper. We?re all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere... more...
Life of Pi
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 21.00Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us... more...
Beatrice and Virgil
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 23.95In a brilliant new novel that is as original and luminous as his Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi , Yann Martel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. When a mysterious, elderly taxidermist introduces Henry, a writer, to Beatrice and Virgil, his life is changed forever. more...
101 Letters to a Prime Minister
Knopf Canada 2012; US$ 24.95From the mailbox of the Prime Minister's Office to your bookshelf, a list of more than 100 books that every Canadian should read. This largely one-sided correspondence from the "loneliest book club in the world" is a compendium for bibliophiles and those who follow the Canadian political scene. Smart, subversive, signed, sealed, and now available... more...
Beatrice and Virgil
Canongate Books 2010; US$ 10.82Fate takes many forms . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulling into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey - named Beatrice and Virgil - and the epic journey they undertake together. With... more...









