THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Lost 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 Bestseller
An 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 List
An ABA Indie Bestseller

"Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth . . . his many fans will delight" - * The Times *

"Moments of real wonder . . . glorious" - * Sunday Times *

"His best since Life of Pi . . . miraculous" - * Washington Post *

"Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker" - * Guardian *

"Surprising and yet entirely believable" - * Observer *

"[Martel's] depiction of loss is raw and deeply affecting . . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique" - * Telegraph *

"Engagingly readable" - * Daily Mail *

"Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence" - * Daily Express *

"Lucid and thought provoking" - * Mail on Sunday *

"Engrossing . . . Martel has a way of capturing the charm, and charge, of an animal and human relationship" - * Independent *

"Martel is a writer with a light touch and a lively fancy . . . Engaging" - * Scotsman *

"An exploration of faith and how we can learn to accept death . . . [Martel] has an ability to write about the very fundamental human emotional threads that join us" - * Irish Independent *

"Sharp, comical, and carries a deeply poignant message" - * The List *

"It is an unusual novel, a vivid and uncanny adventure in storytelling" - * The Skinny *