An auction at
21st May 2013
In support of
London: Canongate, 2001
8vo, first English edition (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” on imprint page), original blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket, foot of spine very slightly bumped
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, from Pondicherry, is a philosophical and spiritual child, whose resources are severely tested when he and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the sole survivors of a shipwreck. They survive for almost eight months drifting in the Pacific Ocean, with Pi at one end of their precarious raft, and Richard Parker at the other.
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, the 2003 Boeke Prize (SA) and the 2004 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Best Adult Fiction 2001-2003. The award winning 2012 film Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee, based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee, stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Gerard Depardieu, Tabu and Adil Hussain.
Annotated or illustrated on 77 pages. Approximately 80 words. Illustrated on all odd-numbered pages starting on p.vii and ending on p.141 with a flick through moving image of a boat on the waves.
Never liked this first line. For starters, it should have been 'This book was born BECAUSE I was hungry,' and even that isn’t a great line."
Never liked this first line. For starters, it should have been 'This book was born BECAUSE I was hungry,' and even that isn’t a great line."
