The Divine (graphic novel) Yann Martel, best known for the international bestseller "Life of Pi". It was released in July 2015 and has hit the New York Times Best Sellers list. It has since received highly positive reviews. "Publishers Weekly" had chosen "The Divine" for "top ten graphic novel for spring 2015", describing it later on as: "Heady, hellacious, and phantasmagoric". Jesse Karp on his Booklist review wrote: "Stunning artwork and creeping dread weave together in this satisfying and moving page-turner". Douglas Wolk from The New York Times described it as "a too rare example of artists getting top billing", referring to the artwork
Self (novel) as "crude confusion", while "The Hindu" described the book as "interesting ideas juxtaposed against not-so-inspiring writing". Martel received in 1991 a grant of $18,000 from the Canada Council to write "Self", which was published in Canada in 1996, with a British launch the same November. Self (novel) Self is a novel by Yann Martel. It tells the story of a traveling writer who wakes up one morning to discover that he has become a woman. It was first published by Knopf Canada in 1996. The narrator, at first male, explains various events from his early childhood, living with a traveling