Critical Praise

"Audacious, exhilarating . . . wonderful. The book's middle section might be the most gripping 200 pages in recent Canadian fiction. It also stands up against some of Martel's more obvious influences: Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the novels of H. G. Wells, certain stretches of Moby Dick."

——Quill & Quire

"Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master."

——Publishers Weekly

"[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life."

——The New York Times Book Review

"Beautifully fantastical and spirited."

——Salon

"If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender."

——The Nation

"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel."

——Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel."

——L'Humanité