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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 coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
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Teenage boys, Zoo animals, Fiction, Literature, Tigers, Translations into Korean, Tiger, award:man_booker_prize=2002, Man Booker Prize Winner, Open Library Staff Picks, Orphans, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Storytelling, Ocean travel, Ithaca College First-Year Reading Initiative, Shipwreck survival, English fiction, Human-animal relationships, Integracji i Globalizacji Centrum Badawcze Transformacji, Fictional Works Publication Type, Religion, Relations homme-animal, Adventure fiction, Schiffbruch, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Human-animal relationship, Überleben, Survie après accidents d'avion, naufrages, Männliche Jugend, Teenagers, Animal Population Groups, Zähmung, Faszination, Romans, nouvelles, Indischer Jugendlicher, Survival at sea, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, psychological, Large type books, Shipwreck victims, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2012-10-21, New York Times bestseller, Romans, Aventures, Naufragés, Tigres, Pacifique, Océan, Novela psicológica, Muchachos adolescentes, Narración de cuentos, Relatos de aventura, Viajes por mar, Relaciones hombre-animal, Supervivencia (después de accidentes aéreos, naufragios, etc.), Animales zoológicos, Ficción, Huérfanos, Survival, Readers, Action & Adventure, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Life of Pi (Martel, Yann), Psychological fiction, Adventure storiesPlaces
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Shao nian Pi de qi huan piao liu
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one 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. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
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