Life of Pi
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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
… More »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. Publisher Fact Sheet. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
« LessMan Booker Prize, 2002
Boeke Prize, 2003
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction, 2001-2003
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Add a SummaryPi Patel grew up in India swimming and hanging out in his family owned Zoo. He practices Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, after visiting a church, Mosque, and a Hindu Temple on a vacation. When he was 16 his family and him left for Canada on a Japanese Cargo ship but never reached their destination, due to a storm causing the ship to sink. Pi's family died but Pi survived leaving him alone... Yet he wasn't the only one to survive, a 450 pound tiger named Richard Parker survived also along with a Hyena, a wounded Zebra, and an Orangutan. Pi Patel was on a small lifeboat stranded in the middle of the ocean with 4 wild animals. The Hyena eats the Zebra alive and then also kills the orangutan. The Tiger Richard Parker then killed the Hyena. Now Pi was just alone with a grown tiger. Pi and this Tiger survived 227 days stranded in the middle of the ocean until he reached Mexico. Richard Parker walked away into the jungle in Mexico never to be seen again by Pi. After Japanese authorities hear of a Japanese Cargo Ship sinking and one lone survivor they drive down to meet Pi, to get answers out of him. He tells his story, but the Japanese do not believe it and ask him to tell the true story, he then tells of another gruesome version of the story with humans in the place of the animals. Not knowing which story was the true one the Japanese leave and Pi spends the rest of his life in Canada.
A young Indian and his parents cast off to move to Canada when an unexpected storm happens that killed his family.Now all he has is a simple lifeboat and a adult male tiger and has to adapt to it if he wants to survive...
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Add a CommentWhat a beautiful book!!!!! the storey,the settings,the feelings, this author knows how to write. I think anyone would get lost in this story, I recommend reading the book before watching the movie though....there is some violence and blood but it is necessary for the story. If you can get the illistarted copy, even better!
I had the beautifully illustrated version which was very nice to have. I enjoyed this very much. His writing was sometimes quite poetic. It was so well written that at times I had to remind myself that it is a work of fiction! I liked reading about the animals and about a 16-year-old teen who was resourceful, strong and also showed and shared deep emotion. (spoiler alert) the ending section was curious: was this saying that both of Pi's versions of his experience were fantasy? I found the second version most unbelievable and prefer the first. The floating island might have been a dream while Pi was so sick with starvation and exposure.
One word. AWESOME!
A truly beautiful story of survival of the ship-wrecked, with many details flowing so beautifully that you can see them in your mind's eye. I would recommend LIFE OF PI to everyone.
read about 60 pages, and the book is so far amazing!
What a beautiful movie-both visually and in the story line.
Fantastic book!
The movie was awesome. Then so should the book~
A great, well-written story of survival. Also a very unique book. Makes you think about faith and the role it plays in peoples' lives.
I absolutely HATED this book. Total waste of time.