Life of Pi Paperback – Black & White, May 1, 2003 by Yann Martel

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Author: Martel Yann

Brand: Mariner Books

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Format: Black & White

Package Dimensions: 28x201x272

Number Of Pages: 326

Release Date: 01-05-2003

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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?

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.”
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The New Yorker
Review

PRAISE FOR
LIFE OF PI

”
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

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

“A gripping adventure story . . . Laced with wit, spiced with terror, it’s a book by an extraordinary talent.”—
St. Paul Pioneer-Press

“A terrific book . . . Fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore.”— Margaret Atwood

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

“Readers familiar with Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Carol Shields should learn to make room on the map of contemporary Canadian fiction for the formidable Yann Martel.” —
Chicago Tribune

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.” —
San Francisco Chronicle

Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. He grew up in Costa Rica, France, Mexico and Canada, and has travel