- Booker Prize 2002 · Winner
Life of Pi
Life of Pi
Yann Martel (born 1963)
English editions
Written in EnglishLife of Pi
Canongate · United Kingdom · 5 July 2018 · Paperback · 336 pages
Life of Pi
Alfred A. Knopf Canada · Canada · 2001 · 352 pages
Life of Pi
Harcourt · United States · 2003 · Paperback · 326 pages
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Piscine Molitor Patel, called Pi, grows up in India, where his parents own a zoo, and devotes himself to Hinduism, Christianity and Islam at once. When the family emigrates to Canada with part of the menagerie, the cargo ship sinks. Pi, sixteen, survives in a lifeboat he shares with a few zoo animals, the most dangerous of them a huge Bengal tiger that soon disposes of the rest. Told by Pi years later, the story follows his 227 days adrift on the Pacific: how he keeps himself alive and keeps the tiger at bay, and how his faith sustains him through the ordeal.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India
- First published
- 2001
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
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9780676973761 (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Canada)
9780156027328 (Harcourt, United States)
9781786891686 (Canongate, United Kingdom)
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