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020			_a0156027321 (pbk.) :
020			_a9780156027328 (pbk.)
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082	0	4	_a813.54
090			_aPR9199.3.M3855 _bL54 2003
100	1		_aMartel, Yann. _95077
245	1	0	_aLife of Pi : _ba novel / _cYann Martel.
250			_aFirst Harvest edition.
300			_axii, 326 pages ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"A Harvest book."
500			_aIncludes reading group guide (pages 323-326)
520			_aWinner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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 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? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Publisher Fact Sheet. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
650		0	_aShipwreck survival _vFiction. _95078
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships _vFiction. _9520
650		0	_aStorytelling _vFiction. _92962
650		0	_aTeenage boys _vFiction. _9940
650		0	_aOcean travel _vFiction. _95079
650		0	_aZoo animals _vFiction. _95080
650		0	_aOrphans _vFiction. _9462
650		0	_aTiger _vFiction. _95081
651		0	_aPacific Ocean _vFiction. _95082
655		0	_aPsychological fiction. _95083
655		7	_aAdventure fiction. _2gsafd. _93052
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