Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

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1. The Best Books Set In IndiaReading list

   India is a land of rich culture and history, and Yann Martel’s book Life of Pi does an excellent job of bringing some of that culture to life. The story follows the journey of a young boy, Pi, who is stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger for 227 days. Throughout the course of their journey, the two form an unlikely…

2. Diana JanneyInterview

   And I would give them the Man Booker prize-winning Life of Pi by Yann Martel. When young Pi is orphaned on the ocean by a shipwreck, the only other survivors are a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. It is a moving story about the triumph of the human psyche in the face of adversity, humanity’s…

3. Alison JacksonInterview

   In a way, Life of Pi by Yann Martel plays with this idea also. By the end of the novel the author has given us two versions of the same story. It’s up to the reader to choose which of those we want to believe. It doesn’t matter which one ‘really happened’. To me, that is fascinating.

4. Christina LaurenInterview

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5. The Booker Prize 2022Article

   Yann Martel, who won the prize in 2002 for his novel “Life of Pi,” a fantastical tale about a young Indian boy who is stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger after his ship sinks.

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