Life of Pi

a novel

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Oct. 1, 2007 by Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-101383-8
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OCLC Number:
154690024

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4 stars (3 reviews)

The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, 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 …

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5 stars

I was surprised by the whole story, specially considering I bought the book because it has a tiger on the cover (my bad). It starts slowly (and maybe a little boring) but as soon as they get on that ship, I couldn't put the book down. I found it extremely intriguing since in my wildest dreams I couldn't make up where the story was going and the whole idea is so far-fetched, I couldn't help but read it ferociously to reach the end. Richard Parker will definitely stay with me. What a great read.

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Subjects

  • World Contemporary Fiction (General) +
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Action & Adventure
  • Action & Adventure - General
  • Literary
  • Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure
  • Psychological
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Storytelling
  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.