Life Of Pi

Author: Martel Yann

Brand: Mariner Books

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Format: Black & White

Number Of Pages: 326

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A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, 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?

“A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

From The New Yorker

An impassioned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventure à la “Kon-Tiki,” and a hilarious shaggy-dog story starring a four-hundred-and-fifty-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker: this audacious novel manages to be all of these as it tells the improbable survivor’s tale of Pi Patel, a young Indian fellow named for a swimming pool (his full first name is Piscine) who endures seven months in a lifeboat with only a hungry, outsized feline for company. 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.”
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

Review

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

“Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel.”–L’Humanité

“A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.’–The Nation
“Beautifully fantastical and spirited.” — Salon

“Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master.” –Publishers Weekly

“[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Audacious, exhilarating . . . wonderful. The book’s middle section might be the most gripping 200 pages in recent Canadian fiction. It also stands up against some of Martel’s more obvious influences: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the novels of H. G. Wells, certain stretches of Moby Dick.”–Quill & Quire
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From the Back Cover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK of 2002

Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks — and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi’s fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do?

“An impassioned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventure a la Kon-Tiki, and hilarious . . . : This audacious novel manages to be all of these.” — The New Yorker

“Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Life of Pi is a real adventure: brutal, tender, expressive, dramatic, and disarmingly funny. . . . It’s difficult to stop reading when the pages run out.” — S

Release Date: 01-05-2003

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