Yann Martel est un auteur acclamé sur la scène internationale, dont les œuvres explorent de profondes questions philosophiques, examinant la condition humaine à travers des récits imaginatifs et captivants. Il mêle magistralement réalisme et fantaisie, créant des expériences littéraires inoubliables qui défient les perceptions des lecteurs. L'écriture de Martel est célébrée pour sa profondeur intellectuelle, son esprit et sa capacité à susciter l'émerveillement et la contemplation. Sa voix unique offre une perspective distincte sur la narration et la nature de la croyance.
Le directeur du zoo de Pondichéry avait bien prévenu son fils Pi : il ne faut jamais se rapprocher des fauves ! Mais il n'avait pas prévu que le cargo conduisant la famille et la ménagerie au Canada sombrerait, laissant Pi seul sur un canot de sauvetage. Enfin, presque seul : un tigre de Bengale est caché dans la chaloupe ! Durant 227 jours, le jeune garçon va tenter d'oublier sa faim, sa peur et les requins pour l'apprivoiser…
Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka changes from a boy into something far wilder. He learns to see in the dark, attack enemies with tooth and claw, and understand the strict pack code. But when he begins to hunt in the city, the world of human beings, it is only a matter of time before the authorities take an interest...
This story of love, sex and ambiguity is the first novel by the Canadian author of the award-winning Life of Pi
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 story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century, whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In “The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton,” a Canadian university student visits Washington, DC and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. “Manners of Dying” has variations of a warden’s letter to the mother of a son he has just executed, revealing how each life is contained in its end. Finally, in “The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company,” a young man discovers a strange contraption in his grandmother’s basement. As the machine runs, she reflects upon her beloved husband.
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 weaves a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.
This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.
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