Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel
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 ...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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"A terrific book... fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore." - Margaret Atwood
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