Yann Martel
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...
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What Is Stephen Harper Reading?
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-0-307-39868-0 (0-307-39868-4)
November 3, 2009 | $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...
Written by Yann Martel
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-0-307-39868-0 (0-307-39868-4)
November 3, 2009 | $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...
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What Is Stephen Harper Reading?
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-0-307-39867-3 (0-307-39867-6)
November 3, 2009 | $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...
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-0-307-39867-3 (0-307-39867-6)
November 3, 2009 | $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...
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Life of Pi
eBook | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37112-6 (0-307-37112-3)
March 19, 2009 | $21.00
Life 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...
Written by Yann Martel
eBook | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37112-6 (0-307-37112-3)
March 19, 2009 | $21.00
Life 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...
Life of Pi (illustrated Edition)
Hardcover | 336 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97899-5 (0-676-97899-1)
November 13, 2007 | $45.00
In October 2005 a worldwide competition was launched to find an artist to illustrate Yann Martel’s international bestseller. Media partners included The Globe and Mail in Canada, The Times in the UK and The Age in Australia, with an international panel of judges that included Canadians Martin Levin, Books Editor of...
Hardcover | 336 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97899-5 (0-676-97899-1)
November 13, 2007 | $45.00
In October 2005 a worldwide competition was launched to find an artist to illustrate Yann Martel’s international bestseller. Media partners included The Globe and Mail in Canada, The Times in the UK and The Age in Australia, with an international panel of judges that included Canadians Martin Levin, Books Editor of...
Life of Pi
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97902-2 (0-676-97902-5)
August 28, 2007 | $30.00
Life 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...
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97902-2 (0-676-97902-5)
August 28, 2007 | $30.00
Life 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...
Life of Pi
Paperback | 480 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-7704-3007-8 (0-7704-3007-4)
August 29, 2006 | $10.99
Life 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...
Written by Yann Martel
Paperback | 480 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-7704-3007-8 (0-7704-3007-4)
August 29, 2006 | $10.99
Life 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...
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97619-9 (0-676-97619-0)
October 12, 2004 | $21.00
Revised and with a new author’s note and cover, here is Man Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel’s debut.
First published in 1993, this remarkable collection of four stories launched the career of a masterful writer. In the exquisite title novella, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a...
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97619-9 (0-676-97619-0)
October 12, 2004 | $21.00
Revised and with a new author’s note and cover, here is Man Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel’s debut.
First published in 1993, this remarkable collection of four stories launched the career of a masterful writer. In the exquisite title novella, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Life of Pi
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97377-8 (0-676-97377-9)
October 10, 2002 | $21.00
Life 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...
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97377-8 (0-676-97377-9)
October 10, 2002 | $21.00
Life 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...
Life of Pi
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97376-1 (0-676-97376-0)
September 11, 2001 | $32.95
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...
Written by Yann Martel
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97376-1 (0-676-97376-0)
September 11, 2001 | $32.95
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...
Self
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28177-3 (0-394-28177-2)
April 29, 1997 | $19.95
A modern-day Orlando -- edgy, funny and startlingly honest -- Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28177-3 (0-394-28177-2)
April 29, 1997 | $19.95
A modern-day Orlando -- edgy, funny and startlingly honest -- Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Trade Paperback | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-22732-0 (0-394-22732-8)
March 27, 1993 | $19.00
The appearance of a young storyteller with a unique fictional voice is cause for celebration. Yann Martel's title story (described as "unforgettable...a truly stunning piece of fiction"*), won the 1991 Journey Prize to universal acclaim. The intensely human tragedy that lies at its heart is told with a spare, careful elegance...
Written by Yann Martel
Trade Paperback | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-22732-0 (0-394-22732-8)
March 27, 1993 | $19.00
The appearance of a young storyteller with a unique fictional voice is cause for celebration. Yann Martel's title story (described as "unforgettable...a truly stunning piece of fiction"*), won the 1991 Journey Prize to universal acclaim. The intensely human tragedy that lies at its heart is told with a spare, careful elegance...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
