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Life Of Pi Paperback – 1 May 2003

by Yann Martel (Author)

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A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
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After the 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 wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, 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?

"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

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1 May 2003
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

"Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel."--L'Humanité

"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
“If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.’--The Nation
"Beautifully fantastical and spirited." -- Salon

"Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." --Publishers Weekly

"[Life of Pi] could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Audacious, exhilarating . . . wonderful. The book's middle section might be the most gripping 200 pages in recent Canadian fiction. It also stands up against some of Martel's more obvious influences: Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the novels of H. G. Wells, certain stretches of Moby Dick."--Quill & Quire

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"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction." Los Angeles Times Book Review

After the 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 wounded zebra, an orangutan and a 450-pound royal bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and beloved works of fiction in recent years.

Universally acclaimed upon publication, Life of Pi is a modern classic.

Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. Life of Pi was translated into forty-five languages, won the 2002 Man Booker Prize, and spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He is also the author of the novels Beatrice and Virgil and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to the prime minister of Canada, What Is Stephen Harper Reading?. He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0156027321
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780156027328
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0156027328
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up

Best Sellers Rank: 44,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 9 in Religious Fiction for Young Adults
- 181 in Psychological Fiction
- 251 in Psychological Thrillers

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Janie U

Beautifully written, deep and spiritual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 May 2014

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I bought this book when it won the Booker prize years ago but never really got past the first few pages. I then saw the film when it was released and tried to read the book again straight afterwards but the images were too strong in my head so yet again it didn't work. I tried again now and am so pleased I did.
The book starts with an "authors note" which places the mood and source of the story. Plenty of seeds are sown here and the spiritual setting is created. Throughout the book we hear more from the author as he gets to find out Pi's story.
Scene setting dominates the first third of the book and Pi is established, then the boat sinks and the story simply starts to fly.
I savoured this book, the writing is beautiful and seems to demand that you read it slowly, taking in every word. Pi had an endless amount of time at sea and wants the reader to understand that the progress of time means nothing compared to the compulsion to survive.
Even having seen the film and having fairly high expectations, I was blown away by the relationship between boy and tiger with its simplicity and complexity on many different levels.
We know that Pi survives from the beginning of the book which gives a calm to our experience of his journey and I somehow wanted his progression (physically and spiritually) to continue forever.
The book is full of wonderful quotes but one of my favourites is " Fiction is the selective transforming of reality" - somehow seems to sum up this book wonderfully.

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A. Nichol

Starts well, ends well, but with a few damp patches

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 September 2015

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I read this off the back of Clancy, and so the contrast couldn't have been more stark.

Too many books I've come across lately lack any emotional or philosophical depth, so it was lovely to read something so whimsical and heart-felt. The story is incredibly simple - a boy survives a ship wreck and finds himself on a lifeboat with a bengal tiger - which leaves a LOT of room for emotional and philosophical exploration. Probably too much room.

It opens wonderfully, painting an imaginative and technicolour picture of Pi's life and family that draws you into his world. Sadly, any momentum is then lost in the following tedious exploration of religious context spanning many, many chapters. So the boy worships many gods; a funny joke told too many times, before the punchline is explained in excruciating detail.

Once castaway, the story picks up again. The first half of this adventure is packed with variety and answers to those "what if" questions that naturally spring to mind. After a while, though, it just gets boring. I started looking at the progress bar at the bottom of my kindle, willing it to come to an end.

I had mixed feelings about the ending. While I was reading it, I was cursing Martel for dragging it out needlessly. But by the time I'd finished it, I totally understood why he had to.

Ultimately, there are some damp patches throughout, but it starts well and ends well, with a few really nice set-pieces in between. It also leaves you with some great "what do you think really happened" discussion material when it's all over.

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A film to be remembered forever.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 April 2020

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I had been avoiding this movie for a few years due to a lack of interest.

How foolish I was.

Life of Pi is an extraordinary 3D adventure.

It is a film I will forever remember.

With astonishing visual effects, showing what it means to be human, and a remarkable storyline between the two central characters, Life of Pi is unquestionably a great film.

I fully recommend this film for it is so much more than a film.

It is an experience.

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Roger Risborough

If you don't believe what I tell you, read it yourself

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 December 2012

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I read this in a hurry to beat the opening of the film, as it just felt like a story that should be read before being seen. Having done this, I can't imagine how filming it has been possible, but we'll all find out soon enough. The 'filmability' issue arises from the fact that 'Life of Pi' combines much philosophical rumination swirling round the head of our main protagonist, Piscine (Pi for short), and much boy-in-a-boat-with-a-tiger-in-the-middle-of-the-Pacific action.
So leaving aside the film director's problems and reviewing it as a book, my immediate conclusion is that it is indeed a 'great' book. Why? Simple yard-sticks really: it starts out as an engaging, entrancing story, but as readers and characters get cast adrift on the ocean you find yourself wrestling with what this is all about, what you're meant to think and what is actually happening, then when you've raced to the end of the tale, it stays with you long after you've closed the book.
Saying too much about Pi's journey is unnecessary and may involve spoilers, but suffice it to say, for something that can be summarised as "two castaways adrift at sea for over two hundred days" it's interest and interpretations extend far beyond the gunnels of a twenty six foot long life-boat. This is a story about belief, faith and survival - so either accept my version of events or read it yourself and make your own mind up.

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S. Ahmad

Deeply moving but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 December 2012

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'Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night...Did He who made the Lamb make thee?' In a word, yes. And in this strange book, Yann Martel beautifully gives life to William Blake's words of 200 years ago, subtly stressing the unity and inter-dependence of all life on Mother Earth, and that we are 'all in the same boat' Writing in a simple, matter of fact way - the very simplicity of his language seems to enhance the profondity of his subject matter - he depicts the workaday life we lead with all its practical aspects (whether it's on land in India or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), but also, underlying that, the fact that the natural world around us (and in particular the animals who surrounded Pi as a child in India) are utterly dependant on man's benevolence: nay, more than that - man's love and compassion.

Unlike some other reviewers, I found the most satisfactory part of the book the preliminary chapters of Pi's life in India, with its thought provoking insights into life, the universe and everything. However...when it comes to being adrift in a small boat in the Pacific Ocean, the endless, obsessive and sometimes (if you are a vegetarian) nauseating details of surviving each day when you don't know where your next meal is coming from, or that you may also become the next meal of the dear tiger, Richard Parker, irritating and tiresome. Page after page of tedious details, which oddly, if it were the real life memoirs of a shipwreck survivor, would probably be fascinating, detract from the emotional and spiritual tenor of the book.

Although the tiger is nature red in tooth and claw, giving it a name - the result of a clerical error at the zoo in India - is clever. Because, like a family pet, it immediately becomes something special in the eyes of its 'owner' who cares for it and bestows love on it. To summarise the book: 'All life is sacred'

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