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Martel, Y.
Sixteen-year-old Pi is on his way from India to a new home in Canada when the ship carrying him, his family, and many of the animals formerly in his family's zoo, sinks. Pi finds himself alone on a 32-man lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Time, determination, and Pi's knowledge of animals help him establish a territory the tiger respects. Both the tiger and Pi's faiths-Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism-help the two survive a horrific 227 days at sea. When investigators from the shipping company refuse to believe Pi's story, he presents them with an alternate version. Even the executives admit their preference for Pi's original, possibly metaphorical, tale. So it is, Pi points out, with God.
Though Martel takes much time recounting Pi's early history, the patient reader will be rewarded.
Martel, Y.
Sixteen-year-old Pi is on his way from India to a new home in Canada when the ship carrying him, his family, and many of the animals formerly in his family's zoo, sinks. Pi finds himself alone on a 32-man lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Time, determination, and Pi's knowledge of animals help him establish a territory the tiger respects. Both the tiger and Pi's faiths-Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism-help the two survive a horrific 227 days at sea. When investigators from the shipping company refuse to believe Pi's story, he presents them with an alternate version. Even the executives admit their preference for Pi's original, possibly metaphorical, tale. So it is, Pi points out, with God.
Though Martel takes much time recounting Pi's early history, the patient reader will be rewarded.
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