New Releases by YANN MARTEL

De langverwachte nieuwe roman van Yann Martel, de auteur van de wereldwijde bestseller Het leven van Pi Het leven van de Canadese wetenschapper Harlow Donne staat volledig in het teken van Homerus. In de krochten van een beroemde bibliotheek in Oxford ontdekt hij een verloren gegaan epos over de Trojaanse Oorlog: de Psoas. Anders dan de Ilias is dit het verhaal van een gewone Griek die naar Troje trekt om te vechten. Door zijn toewijding aan de wetenschap verwaarloost Harlow zijn gezin. Terwijl hij de Psoas vertaalt en voorziet van commentaar, beschrijft hij ook zijn eigen leven met vrouw en dochter. Hij wordt geconfronteerd met vragen over ambitie, familie en verantwoordelijkheid in zowel de Griekse Oudheid als in zijn eigen leven. Zoon van niemand is een fascinerende roman over grote verhalen, over bloed- en huwelijksbanden en de zin en onzin van oorlog. Yann Martel laat zien hoe oude verhalen altijd door blijven zingen. Met Het leven van Pi won Yann Martel de Booker Prize, de belangrijkste prijs uit het Engelse taalgebied. Het boek werd ook zeer succesvol verfilmd door Ang Lee. Martel woont in Saskatoon, Canada. Over Het leven van Pi: 'Het leven van Pi is een fantastisch boek. Het is fris, origineel, slim, geraffineerd en zit vol met meeslepende verhalen.' Margaret Atwood 'Het leven van Pi laat ons geloven in de verbeeldingskracht van de literatuur, in de noodzaak van het betere verhaal.' Stine Jensen, NRC 'Precair evenwicht tussen spel en ernst, fantasie en realisme, een immer verrassende, frisse stijl.' Kristien Hemmerechts, Vrij Nederland Vertaald door Hilje Papma, Marlies Weyergang en Arwin van der Zwan

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Esquire • Marie Claire • Art+ • The Times • The Guardian • The Observer • The Financial Times • BBC • The Sydney Morning Herald • A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read • Featured in The American Booksellers Association''s Spring 2026 Preview • Oprah Daily From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar. “The past is never done with: always the song continues” Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs. In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody. As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief. In this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always.

Fiktivní příběh kanadského autora sugestivně zaznamenává sedm měsíců života indického chlapce, které prožil na záchranném člunu společně s bengálským tygrem. Oceněný román je podmanivým příběhem šestnáctiletého indického chlapce, který se jako jediný člověk zachrání po ztroskotání nákladní lodi převážející celou jeho rodinu a část zvířat ze zoo, kterou vlastnili. Na záchranném člunu chlapec, vyznávající všeobjímající náboženskou víru, ale není sám. Spolu s ním tragédii přežila zebra, hyena, samička orangutana a bengálský tygr. Po týdnu už zůstává chlapec na lodi sám s tygrem a jedinou šancí na přežití je ovládnutí a podmanění divoké šelmy.

Lisbonne, 1904. Frappé par le deuil, Tomas a décidé de tourner le dos au monde, littéralement : il ne marche plus qu'à reculons. Obsédé par un étrange petit livre datant du 17e siècle, le journal d'un missionnaire en Angola, Tomas part à la recherche de l'objet mystérieux que le prêtre affirme avoir découvert. Sa quête le mènera dans un village perdu de la région des Hautes Montagnes du Portugal. Au pied de ces mêmes montagnes, en 1939, le Dr. Eusebio Lozora, veuf de fraîche date, reçoit un soir la visite d'une vieille dame extravagante, laquelle lui demande de pratiquer l'autopsie de son défunt mari, qu'elle transporte dans sa valise... Et c'est dans ce même village, en 1981, que vient se réfugier le sénateur canadien Peter Tovy au lendemain du décès de son épouse, pour renouer au crépuscule de sa vie avec ses racines familiales. Mais il n'arrive pas seul : le sénateur est accompagné... D'un chimpanzé nommé Odo. Fable enchanteresse où le merveilleux s'invite à chaque page, bouleversante allégorie sur le deuil, la foi, la nature de l'homme et son destin, le nouveau roman de Yann Martel nous convie une fois de plus, après L'Histoire de Pi, à un voyage extraordinaire, aux confins de l'imagination romanesque.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize–winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel’s writing has never been more charming.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás’s quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul. Praise for The High Mountains of Portugal “Just as ambitious, just as clever, just as existential and spiritual [as Life of Pi] . . . a book that rewards your attention . . . an excellent book club choice.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There’s no denying the simple pleasures to be had in The High Mountains of Portugal.”—Chicago Tribune “Charming . . . Most Martellian is the boundless capacity for parable. . . . Martel knows his strengths: passages about the chimpanzee and his owner brim irresistibly with affection and attentiveness.”—The New Yorker “A rich and rewarding experience . . . [Martel] spins his magic thread of hope and despair, comedy and pathos.”—USA Today “I took away indelible images from High Mountains, enchanting and disturbing at the same time. . . . As whimsical as Martel’s magic realism can be, grief informs every step of the book’s three journeys. In the course of the novel we burrow ever further into the heart of an ape, pure and threatening at once, our precursor, ourselves.”—NPR “Refreshing, surprising and filled with sparkling moments of humor and insight.”—The Dallas Morning News “We’re fortunate to have brilliant writers using their fiction to meditate on a paradox we need urgently to consider—the unbridgeable gap and the unbreakable bond between human and animal, our impossible self-alienation from our world.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “[Martel packs] his inventive novel with beguiling ideas. What connects an inept curator to a haunted pathologist to a smitten politician across more than seventy-five years is the author’s ability to conjure up something uncanny at the end.”—The Boston Globe “A fine home, and story, in which to find oneself.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

A modern-day Orlando—edgy, funny and startlingly honest—Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?

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 orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Since it was first published in 2002, Life of Pi has entered mainstream consciousness and remains one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years. In October 2005 Canongate launched a competition with The Times to find an artist to illustrate Yann Martel''s international bestseller. Soon the competition expanded as the Globe and Mail and The Age newspapers also launched a search in Canada and Australia. From thousands of entries, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen as the illustrator for this new edition of Life of Pi. Now readers can enjoy this extraordinary tale with his glorious colour illustrations.

La carta de un anciano taxidermista le plantea a Henry, un escritor retirado, un enigma al que no puede resistirse. A medida que se adentra en el mundo de ese extraño y calculador hombre, Henry se verá completamente absorbido por las vidas de una burra y un mono, llamados Beatriz y Virgilio, en una épica jornada que pasan juntos... Han pasado casi diez años desde que se publicara Vida de Pi, una novela que fue todo un fenómeno internacional. Aquella fue una obra especialísima, original, brillante, uno de esos raros libros que no deja indiferente a nadie. Parecía difícil, pero Martel ha conseguido con Beatriz y Virgilio una obra que iguala a Vida de Pi en originalidad, belleza y rotundidad. Una novela llena de momentos maravillosos que enseña, sugiere y emociona.

Un escenari blau: el Pacífic.Una taca blanca: un bot.Dins, un petit món.La Història de Pi és l'aventura d'un noi indi de 16 anys que es va passar 227 dies en una barca salvavides amb l'única companyia d'un tigre de Bengala. El viatge, la supervivència i la peculiar relació que s'estableix entre l'home i l'animal dibuixen un relat màgic. Yann Martel ens ofereix una faula sobre la dependència, la llibertat, la fe i l'instint. Un relat encisador que ens submergeix en una aventura fantàstica però creïble.

Alors qu'il avait arrêté d'écrire, Henry, auteur à succès, reçoit l'extrait d'une étrange pièce de théâtre mettant en scène une ânesse, Béatrice, et un singe, Virgile, ainsi qu'un mot lui demandant de l'aide. Henry, flatté et intrigué, se laisse prendre au jeu mais, à mesure qu'il découvre le texte, commence à s'interroger sur son sens et sur les véritables motivations de son auteur, un vieux taxidermiste au passé trouble...

When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey - named Beatrice and Virgil - and the epic journey they undertake together.

“I know you’re very busy, Mr. Harper. We’re all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, before we fall asleep.” From the author of Life of Pi comes a literary correspondence—recommendations to Canada’s Prime Minister of great short books that will inspire and delight book lovers and book club readers across our nation. Every two weeks since April 16th, 2007, Yann Martel has mailed Stephen Harper a book along with a letter. These insightful, provocative letters detailing what he hopes the Prime Minister may take from the books—by such writers as Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Stephen Galloway—are collected here together. The one-sided correspondence (Mr. Harper’s office has only replied once) becomes a meditation on reading and writing and the necessity to allow ourselves to expand stillness in our lives, even if we’re not head of government.

“My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person’s perspective—Pi’s perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc.” — Tomislav Torjanac The modern classic and international bestseller is now brought to splendid, eye-popping life with forty beautiful illustrations from artist Tomislav Torjanac. After the sinking of a cargo ship, a 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 wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, Richard Parker, for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional—but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It''s a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?

Etter det tragiske forliset til et lasteskip, seiler en enslig livbåt av sted på det endeløse Stillehavet. Livbåtens overlevende mannskap består av en hyene, en sebra med et brukket bein, en orangutang, en 200 kilos bengalsk tiger og Pi ? en 16 år gammel indisk gutt som med udelt hengivenhet bekjenner seg til hinduismen, islam og kristendommen - samtidig. Scenen er satt for en eventyrlig beretning om dårskap og grusomhet, om håp, tro og kjærlighet, om fantasiens livgivende kraft. Historien om Pi er fortellerkunst av et så sjeldent kaliber at den ?vil få deg til å tro på Gud?, for å si det med juryen som tildelte romanen Booker-prisen for 2002. Yann Martel har tidligere skrevet romanen "Self" og novellesamlingen "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios".

Four stories by the Booker Prize-winning author. Includes "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios," "the Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Ranking String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton," "Manners of Dying," and "The Mirror Machine," each in its entirety. Written earlier in Martel''s career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.

Na Lisboa de 1904, um jovem chamado Tomás descobre um diário antigo onde é mencionado um artefacto extraordinário que poderá redefinir a história. Ao volante de um dos primeiros automóveis da Europa, Tomás aventura-se pelo país em busca deste objeto invulgar. Trinta e cinco anos depois, em Bragança, um patologista, leitor voraz dos romances de Agatha Christie, vê-se enredado num mistério que é consequência da demanda que Tomás levara a cabo. Décadas mais tarde, um senador canadiano refugia-se numa aldeia no Norte de Portugal após a morte da mulher. Com ele traz um companheiro invulgar: um chimpanzé. E eis que é desvendado por fim um mistério com cem anos. As Altas Montanhas de Portugal é um romance original e empolgante que explora com mestria questões prementes da condição humana. Cheio de humor e surpresas, leva-nos numa viagem pelo Portugal do século passado que é também uma viagem interior.