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Life of Pi by Yann Martel

ISBN: 9780756933937
Release Date: 01 May 2004
Average rating: (read by 556 members)

Categories: Modern fiction , Adventure / thriller

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?

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	rodangelo
	Rated it 11 days ago

I truly hated this book and very nearly didn't finish it. The whole thing could have been accomplished in fewer than 100 pages and was not especially profound or endearing. It just goes on an on and on...

	malmenda
	Rated it 18 days ago

Everyone raved about this book so much that I had to give it a shot. I was so bored and couldn't even finish the damn thing!

	digbytoast
	Rated it 2 months ago

One of my all-time favourite books!

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