Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
This brilliant novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale, " as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with four wild animals. His knowledge and cunning allow him to coexist for 227 days with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
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-->Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs?tree-planter, dishwasher, security guard--and traveled widely before turning to writing at the age of twenty-six. He is the author of a collection of short stories; three novels, including the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize?winning novel Life of Pi, which spent fifty-seven weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list, and "Beatrice and Virgil"; and a collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada, "What is Stephen Harper Reading?". Yann Martel li
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