Etter det tragiske forliset til et lasteskip seiler en enslig livbåt av sted på det endeløse Stillehavet. Livbåtens overlevende mannskap består av en hyene, en sebra (med et brukket bein), en orangutang, en 200 kilos bengaltiger og Pi - en 16 år gammel indisk gutt som med udelt hengivenhet bekjenner seg til hinduismen, islam og kristendommen, samtidig. Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om tro, håp og kjærlighet.

Etter det tragiske forliset til et lasteskip, seiler en enslig livbåt av sted på det endeløse Stillehavet. Livbåtens overlevende mannskap består av en hyene, en sebra (med et brukket bein), en orangutang, en 200 kilos bengaltiger og Pi - en 16 år gammel indisk gutt som med udelt hengivenhet bekjenner seg til hinduismen, islam og kristendommen, samtidig. Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om tro, håp og kjærlighet.

Etter det tragiske forliset til et lasteskip, seiler en enslig livbåt av sted på det endeløse Stillehavet. Livbåtens overlevende mannskap består av en hyene, en sebra (med et brukket bein), en orangutang, en 200 kilos bengaltiger og Pi - en 16 år gammel indisk gutt som med udelt hengivenhet bekjenner seg til hinduismen, islam og kristendommen, samtidig. Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om tro, håp og kjærlighet.

Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om tro, håp og kjærlighet.

This is the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel. It ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. It also involves a howler monkey, a donkey, an enigmatic taxidermist, and a dog named Erasmus. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.

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 and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

Efter ett tragiskt skeppsbrott guppar en ensam livbåt mitt ute på Stilla havet. Ombord finns en hyena, en zebra, en orangutang, en två hundra kilo tung bengalisk tiger och så Pi – en sextonårig indisk pojke. Det här är Pis berättelse om de dagar och nätter han tillbringar på havet, så småningom ensam med tigern Richard Parker. Trots att kampen för överlevnad är hård har Pi tid att fundera över livet och Gud, människorna och djuren. Han får uppleva ensamhet i ordets mest grymma betydelse, men lär sig också att uppskatta det sällskap som erbjuds. Genom sin enkla och okomplicerade syn på tillvaron klarar han sig igenom det ena äventyret mer fantastiskt än det andra. En fantastisk bok. Den är originell, klok, hisnande och genomsyras av uppslukande berättarkonst.” The Sunday Times Missa inte berättelsen om Pi!

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLost in Portugal. Lost to grief.With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.A New York Times BestsellerAn Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller#1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List#1 on Maclean's Bestseller List#1 on National Post's Bestseller List#1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller ListAn ABA Indie Bestseller

Pis familie skal immigrere til Canada men skipet forliser under overfarten. 16-årige Pi befinner seg i en livbåt med en skadd sebra, en hyene, en orangutang og en sjøsyk bengalsk tiger. Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om tro, håp og kjærlighet. - Passer også for ungdom

What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving only one lifeboat of survivors? And what happens if those survivors are a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker? Sixteen-year-old Pi 'Piscine' Patel is about to find out ...

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories er en bok med noveller av den kanadiske forfatteren Yann Martel. Fra baksiden av boken: «Hailed for its power and elegance on both sides of the Atlantic, Yann Martel's memorable debut collection displays the startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made this Man Booker Prize-winning author an international phenomenon.»

Edgy, funny and devastating, 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 the sudden shocking news of an accident abroad. And as adulthood begins, indecisively, boundaries are crossed between countries, languages and people . . .

Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the queering of contemporary citizenship in North America. Providing sensitive and convincing readings of work by both popular and niche authors, including Gloria Anzaldua, Dorothy Allison, Gregory Scofield, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Erin Moure, Junot Diaz, and Yann Martel, this book is the first to not only read these authors together, but also to discuss how each powerfully resists the exclusionary work of state-sanctioned citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. This book convincingly draws connections between queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies and sheds light on how these connections can reframe our understanding of American Studies. -- .

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabate subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabate demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.