Martel is the son of a diplomat and as a child lived in Costa Rica, Canada, France and Mexico.
Since then, it has sold over seven million copies worldwide, won several prizes and been translated into 41 languages. It is the third book by the Canadian author Yann Martel, and was published in 2001.
The Life of Pi tells the extraordinary story of Pi, a teenage boy from India, who is shipwrecked and finds himself trapped in a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a ferocious tiger.
