Life of Pi

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play.

After the sinking of a cargo ship, a 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 wounded zebra, an orangutan--and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, 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?

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.

Author: Yann Martel
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 06/04/2002
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.38w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780151008117

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65915 / Life of Pi


Award: 2002 Man Booker Prize Winner - Novel
Award: 2003 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee - Adult Fiction
Award: Tayshas Reading Commended - Young Adult
Award: 2005 Colorado Blue Spruce Award Nominee - Young Adult
Award: 2006 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee - Grades 9-12