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One boy, one boat, one tiger.... British comedian, actor and broadcaster Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE performs this brilliant edition of a work of fiction that is loved by fans around the world. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a 16 year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for an extraordinary adventure.

With this highly anticipated new audiobook, the author of the best-selling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerising story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that touch the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century.

When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist; it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled 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.

Lissabon, 1904: In einem Automobil begibt sich der junge Tomás auf eine abenteuerliche Expedition in die Hohen Berge Portugals. Ein tragikomischer Roadtrip beginnt, der ein unvermutetes Ende nimmt. Doch das ist erst der Anfang einer fantastischen Geschichte, die die einsame Gegend noch Jahrzehnte später umweht wie ein unauslöschlicher Zauber.

Here are four unforgettable stories by Yann Martel, the New York Times best-selling author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the 20th century.

Po tragickém ztroskotání japonské nákladní lodi Tsimtsum, převážející majitele zoo s rodinou i jeho zvířata z Indie do Kanady, se na rozbouřené hladině Tichého oceánu pohupuje osamělý záchranný člun. Posádka člunu se skládá z hyeny skvrnité, zebry (se zlomenou nohou), samice orangutana, dvoumetrového bengálského tygra – a šestnáctiletého indického chlapce jménem Pí. Kulisy jsou připravené pro jeden z nejpozoruhodnějších anglosaských románů současnosti, oceněného prestižní britskou literární cenu Man Booker Prize.