Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2001 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Pi Patel, the son of a Pondicherry zookeeper, is the lone human survivor of a ship that sinks in the Pacific on the family's emigration to Canada, and he shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days. Martel acknowledged a debt to Moacyr Scliar's Max and the Cats, which is not held.

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