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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
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?
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.
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?
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.
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- Book Details
- English Books
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- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 184195392X
- ISBN-13: 9781841953922
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
- Pub date: May 29, 2003
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages:
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I really enjoyed reading this book. I love the way it's narrated. At times sad, funny, hilarious, deep, ironic! The ending wasn't up to the rest of the book I thought. I found the two Japanese inspectors to be quite annoying, but maybe that was exactly the point...
Wonderful story, although the first and second halves feel like they were written by different authors- dissimilar writing style and tone.
This book got entirely too graphic for my taste, and just when I thought it couldn't possibly be any weirder... I was wrong. I'm not recommending this one, and I don't agree with the stellar reviews I read about it at all.
A well told story with an intriguing ending
This book was really slow. I can't believe I kept reading and didn't just give up. I thought the end was really good though, so it was worth it!
Seems like for a while everyone was talking about it ... so I feel like I have to add it to my list.