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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLost 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 BestsellerAn 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 ListAn ABA Indie Bestseller
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"Moments of real wonder . . . glorious " (Sunday Times)
"His best since Life of Pi . . . miraculous" (Washington Post)
"Surprising and yet entirely believable" (Observer)
"Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker" (Ursula Le Guin Guardian)
"Engagingly readable" (Daily Mail)
"[Martel's] depiction of loss is raw and deeply affecting . . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique" (Telegraph)
"Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence" (Daily Express)
"A book of great wisdom and beauty" (Gavin Francis)
"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) --Washington Post
"Sharp, comical, and carries a deeply poignant message" (The List) --The LIst
"It is an unusual novel, a vivid and uncanny adventure in storytelling" (The Skinny) --The Skinny
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