Martel, Yann

A young man, enroute from India to Canada, faces danger from animals headed to his father's zoo while trapped on a lifeboat.

Presents four short stories by twentieth-century Canadian author Yann Martel that depicts life experiences of death and dying including the title story of a young man dealing with AIDS.

Lisbon 1904, Tom?s, having discovered a journal with details about an artifact that can redefine history, sets out to find the treasure. Thirty-five years later in Portugal, an Agatha Christie expert and a Canadian senator, who is grieving the loss of his wife, find themselves involved with the consequences of Tom?'s quest.

Pi Patel, sixteen-year-old son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, sets off with his family to Canada, but his life takes a dramatic turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific leaving him adrift on a raft with a Bengal tiger for company.

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

Henry, a writer, receives a curious letter from an elderly taxidermist who wants Henry to help him write a play about a donkey and a howler monkey--Beatrice and Virgil--but Henry feel increasingly uncomfortable as he learns more about the odd world of the taxidermist and his perilous plans for Beatrice and Virgil.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.