Life of Pi

Author
Yann Martel (Author)
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Publication date
17 May 2003
Language
English
Format
Paperback, 348 pages
ISBN
978-1-84195-392-2

Book description

Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea. Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the value of religious metaphor it was one of the most extraordinary and original novels of 2002. The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo ship on the Pacific 16 year old Pi spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena a zebra (with a broken leg) a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard Parker ...

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