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Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if that’s the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in gorgeously-hued India, the Muslim-Christian-animistic Pi sets off for a fresh start in Canada. His blissful voyage is rudely interrupted when his boat is scuppered halfway across the Pacific, and he is forced to rough it in a lifeboat with a hyena, a monkey, a whingeing zebra and a tiger called Richard. That would be bad enough, but from here on things get weirder: the animals start slaughtering each other in a veritable frenzy of allegorical bloodlust, until Richard the tiger and Pi are left alone to wander the wastes of ocean, with plenty of time to ponder their fate, the cruelty of the gods, the best way to handle storms and the various different recipes for oothappam, scrapple and coconut yam kootu. The denouement is pleasantly neat. According to the blurb, thirtysomething Yann Martel spent long years in Alaska, India, Mexico, France, Costa Rica, Turkey and Iran, before settling in Canada. All those cultures and more have been poured into this spicy, vivacious, kinetic and very entertaining fiction. --Sean ThomasRead More

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  • Amazon

    Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 07 Pages: 352 Publisher: Walker One boy one Boat one tiger ... After the Tragic sinking of a cargo ship a solitary Lifeboat remains Bobbing on the wild blue Pacific The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi. a hyena. a zea (with a oken leg). a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

  • TheBookPeople

    With his funny and original novel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel rivets the reader's attention with some clever storytelling involving a boy, a lifeboat and a tiger. Pi is the son of a zookeeper and is emigrating to Canada on a cargo ship with his family and animals from the zoo when the boat is shipwrecked. Pi finds himself in the only lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a tiger. What follows is not just an engrossing adventure story but a tale of wild and crazy ideas. Readers from 13 will be enthralled.

  • ASDA

    After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi a hyena a zebra (with a broken leg) a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

  • RedHouse

    Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a stunningly original novel and a must-read classic!

  • 1406330264
  • 9781406330267
  • Yann Martel
  • 5 July 2010
  • Walker
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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