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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780156027328 
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Awards
2002 Man Booker Prize
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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?
Review:
"This breezily aphoristic, unapologetically twee saga of man and cat is a convincing hands-on, how-to guide for dealing with what Pi calls, with typically understated brio, 'major lifeboat pests.'" The New Yorker
Review:
"Martel's Life of Pi might sound ridiculous, but by the time Martel throws Pi out to sea, his quirkily magical and often hilarious vision has already taken hold....Martel is so mesmerized by Pi that one can't help but be enchanted too....Pi's lost-at-sea story never drags. The slow journey is spiked with fascinating survival scenes....Pi's story is so extraordinary that when he finally makes it ashore, he offers a comparatively boring version of the tale to two researchers, acknowledging that humans don't have much of a taste for the miraculous. This played-down version makes Pi's true tale, thanks to Martel's beautifully fantastical and spirited rendering, all the more tempting to believe." Suzy Hansen, Salon.com
Review:
"A work of wonder....[T]he kind of twist-and-turns spellbinder that's almost impossible to forget." Paul Evans, Book Magazine
Synopsis:
This brilliant novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale, " as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with four wild animals. His knowledge and cunning allow him to coexist for 227 days with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
Synopsis:
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?
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LauraAdams, June 27, 2008 (view all comments by LauraAdams)
I chose this book for our book club but was a little disappointed in it overall. The first half of the book was a little hard to get interested in. It jumped from the author to Pi and was a little scattered and hard to follow. I found the 2nd half of the book much more interesting. It was a little out there and I did not find it a book that "made me believe in God" as tauted. I do believe in God but this book did nothing to strenghen that in the least. I came away feeling like the animals were sybolic of other things as in Animal Farm, etc. I did not hate it or love it. Not sure that I really even understood it.
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uncle_loki, July 7, 2007 (view all comments by uncle_loki)
This book made me smile. The descriptions were vivid. I enjoyed the zoology included in the plot. And Pi himself was delightful. It was just the right mix of the plausible and the fantastic.
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ROBODOC2004, April 6, 2007 (view all comments by ROBODOC2004)
i loved this book ! i read it cover to cover in one day,i could'nt put it down.i love yan martel's writing style.he pays amazing atention to detail.he makes you feel like you know the characters personaly.you really understand them and what their going through.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780156027328
- Translator:
- Jacqueline Kaiser
- Publisher:
- Harvest Books
- Author:
- Author:
- Location:
- Orlando, Fla.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Action & Adventure
- Subject:
- Human-animal relationships
- Subject:
- Religious - General
- Subject:
- Ocean travel
- Subject:
- Orphans
- Subject:
- Teenage boys
- Subject:
- Psychological fiction
- Subject:
- Pacific ocean
- Subject:
- Storytelling
- Subject:
- Tigers
- Subject:
- Zoo animals
- Subject:
- Adventure fiction
- Subject:
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st Harvest ed.
- Edition Description:
- Lst Harvest
- Series Volume:
- 108-107
- Publication Date:
- May 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 348
- Dimensions:
- 8.06x5.40x.94 in. .71 lbs.
