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An edition of Life of Pi (2000)

Life of Pi

a novel

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  • ★★★ ★ 4.0 (151 ratings)
  • 838 Want to read
  • 58 Currently reading
  • 208 Have read

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. 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. The ship sinks. 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. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. 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?

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Harcourt, Harvest Books
Language
English
Pages
401

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2012, Yi lin chu ban she
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Life of Pi
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October 1, 2007, Harcourt
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Ḥaye Pai
2003, Kineret Pub. House
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Life of Pi
2003, Wheeler Pub.
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Life of Pi: a novel
2002, Harcourt
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Life of Pi
2002, Canongate, Canongate Pub Ltd
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Life of Pi
May 03, 2002, Penguin
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Life of Pi: a novel
2001, Harcourt, Harvest Books
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Life of Pi : a novel
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Edition Notes

"A Harvest book."

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Orlando, Fla
Genre
Fiction.

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Library of Congress
PR9199.3.M3855 L54

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Pagination
xi, 401 p. ;
Number of pages
401

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22859344M
ISBN 10
0156030209
ISBN 13
9780156030205
LibraryThing
5197633
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1226

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Work ID
OL2827199W

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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.

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