About the author
Yann Martel is a Canadian novelist best known for the Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi. His fiction uses adventure, fable, and competing accounts to ask what a story can make believable when facts alone do not settle meaning.
Martel makes survival depend on careful observation: Pi must find water, ration food, read the sea, and establish a territory the tiger will respect. The practical detail sits beside prayer, fear, and the stories the mind tells when ordinary explanations are no longer enough.
Where to start
Start with Life of Pi. After a shipwreck, a teenage boy crosses the Pacific in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
