Life of Pi

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RIVETING NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES N0TABLE BOOK 1, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism, but alsó Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks-and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do? !An impassíoned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventu re a la Kon-Ti ki, and hilarious ...This audacious 4 növel manages to be all of these." -the new yorker Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of növelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life." -the new york times book review Life of Pi is a real... Tovább

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RIVETING NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES N0TABLE BOOK 1, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism, but alsó Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks-and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do? !An impassíoned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventu re a la Kon-Ti ki, and hilarious ...This audacious 4 növel manages to be all of these." -the new yorker Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of növelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life." -the new york times book review Life of Pi is a real adventure: brutal, tender; expressi^^amatíc and disarmingly funny. ... it's difficult to stop readihen the pages run out." -san Francisco ^ronicle I i was born in Spain ín 1963 « Canadian parents. He grew up in Costa Rica, Francé, Mexich, and Canada. After studying philosophy at university, he worked variously as a dishwasher, tree planter, and security guard. Then he began to write. When he's not living somewhere else, he lives in Montreal. « Vissza