Life Of Pi

Author: Yann Martel

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9781841953922
  • : Canongate Books
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  • : 0.279
  • : 01 March 2002
  • : 198mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Yann Martel
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781841953922
9781841953922

Description

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 ...

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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction