Ebook {Epub PDF} Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Yann Martel - Life of Pi ().pdf. Yann Martel - Life of Pi ().pdf. Sign In. Details. Yann Martel recently captured the coveted Man Booker Prize for his zoo parable Life of Pi, but even prior to that great victory his strange little book was generating a lot of buzz. Various critics have made comparisons to other works -- The Jungle Book meets Lord of the Flies, for example (or even Timothy Findley 's Not Wanted on the Voyage).  · Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age/5(K).

Life of Pi is the second novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. It tells the story the day ordeal, in a lifeboat with a pound Royal Bengal tiger, of a sixteen-year-old Indian youth, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi). Life of Pi is a particularly unique novel that centers around the story of a wise and intelligent year-old Indian boy who finds himself stranded at sea, with a Bengal tiger as a not-so-friendly companion. Leaving his home in Pondicherry, India, for a new life in Canada with his family and a large load of zoo animals, his ship, the Tsimtsum, unexpectedly begins to sink and Pi finds himself. Yann Martel recently captured the coveted Man Booker Prize for his zoo parable Life of Pi, but even prior to that great victory his strange little book was generating a lot of buzz. Various critics have made comparisons to other works -- The Jungle Book meets Lord of the Flies, for example (or even Timothy Findley 's Not Wanted on the Voyage).

Yann Martel was born in Spain in of Canadian parents. Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. A #1 New York Times bestseller, it spent weeks on the list and was adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. Author: Yann Martel. “Life of Pi” is a fantasy/adventure novel written by the Canadian writer Yann Martel and published in The novel was an immediate success after it’s release and has since sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It has also won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction () the Best Adult Fiction award (, and ) and the South African Boeke Prize () among others and, more recently was adapted into a feature film of the same name that went on to. The author writes the rest of the narrative from Pi’s point of view, occasionally interrupting to describe his interviews with the adult Pi. Pi grows up in Pondicherry, India in the s. He is named after a famous swimming pool in Paris. Pi’s father is a zookeeper, and Pi and his brother Ravi are raised among exotic wild animals. Pi’s tale frequently digresses to explain about zookeeping, animal territories, and boundaries.