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 behaviour, 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 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.
Life of Pi (International Edition)
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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 behaviour, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam.
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عن المؤلف
Yann Martel is a dynamic writer who started his writing career at a young age. However, it is his good luck that he has won awards during his lifetime. In fact, his unique writing style and literary qualities of his masterpieces have brought novel ideas to global literature. His distinctive writing approach and unique ways have transformed him into a giant writer of this age. Also, he had a significant influence on a diverse range of writers and critics. Yann expressed his thoughts and ideas in his literary pieces so well that even today writers tend to imitate his style, considering him a role model for producing fiction.
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