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『パイの物語』は、ヤン・マーテルによる2001年のファンタジー冒険小説である。インドの少年パイが船でカナダに渡る途中に遭難し、一緒に輸送されていたベンガルトラのリチャード・パーカーをはじめとする動物たちと共に227日間を過ごすという物語である。 小説は2001年9月にクノッフカナダで出版されられる前に、少なくともロンドンの5つ出版社によって拒否された。その翌年、イギリス版はブッカー賞を受賞した。また2003年、CBCラジオの『Canada …

Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust. It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader. Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a …

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian …

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 …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel's writing has never …