Life of Pi: a novel
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Lexile measure:
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
Subjects
Subjects
Action and adventure fiction
Adventure fiction
Electronic books
Fantasy
Fiction
Human-animal relationships
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION
Literary
Literary -- FICTION
Literature
Movie or Television Tie-In
Movie or Television Tie-In -- FICTION
Ocean travel
Ocean travel -- Fiction
Orphans
Orphans -- Fiction
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Relations homme-animal
Relations homme-animal -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Shipwreck survival
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction
Storytelling
Storytelling -- Fiction
Survie apre?s accidents d'avion, naufrages, etc
Survie apre?s accidents d'avion, naufrages, etc. -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Survival
Survival -- Fiction
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction
Survival at sea
Survival at sea -- Fiction
Teenage boys
Teenage boys -- Fiction
Tiger
Tiger -- Fiction
Tigers
Tigers -- Fiction
Zoo animals
Zoo animals -- Fiction
Adventure fiction
Electronic books
Fantasy
Fiction
Human-animal relationships
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION
Literary
Literary -- FICTION
Literature
Movie or Television Tie-In
Movie or Television Tie-In -- FICTION
Ocean travel
Ocean travel -- Fiction
Orphans
Orphans -- Fiction
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Relations homme-animal
Relations homme-animal -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Shipwreck survival
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction
Storytelling
Storytelling -- Fiction
Survie apre?s accidents d'avion, naufrages, etc
Survie apre?s accidents d'avion, naufrages, etc. -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Survival
Survival -- Fiction
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction
Survival at sea
Survival at sea -- Fiction
Teenage boys
Teenage boys -- Fiction
Tiger
Tiger -- Fiction
Tigers
Tigers -- Fiction
Zoo animals
Zoo animals -- Fiction
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9780156030205
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Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.7, 16 Points
Level 5.7, 16 Points
Lexile measure:
830L
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Life of Pi [electronic resource] : a novel / Yann Martel
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