Life of Pi
Author(s): Yann Martel
Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea. Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the value of religious metaphor, it was one of the most extraordinary and original novels of 2002. The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo ship on the Pacific, 16 year old Pi spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard Parker ...
General Information
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books
- : 0.279
- : 01 March 2002
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Yann Martel
- : New edition
- : English
- : good
- : 348
More About The Product
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction