It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

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. 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? A 1 New York Times bestseller, it spent 104 weeks on the list and was adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents.Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. 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. 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. 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. Yann Martel HarperCollins, Fiction - 352 pages 10 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified A MODERN CLASSIC AND. All of his published works have won literary prizes his second novel, Life of Pi (2001), received the 2002 Booker Prize, and became an international best. 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. An idea twists and turns, glittering and gleaming, slaps you in the face with its tail and slips away.Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has his narrator pose a larger, Keatsian ‘beauty is truth’ argument against the glorification of reason, ‘that fool’s gold for the bright.’ It’s as if he were suggesting that storytelling is a kind of religious experience because it helps us understand the world in a more profound way than a just-the-facts approach … Though one can read Life of Pi just for fun, trying to figure out Pi’s relationship to God makes one feel a bit like the castaway hero wrestling slippery fish into his lifeboat for dinner. Although its themes are serious and there are moments of awful graphic violence and bleak despair, it is above all a book about life’s absurdities that makes one laugh out loud on almost every page, with its quirky juxtapositions, comparisons, metaphors, Borgesian puzzles, postmodern games and a sense of fun that reflects the hero’s sensual enjoyment of the world … Martel is also interested in the faith of his readers.

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