Life Of Pi: A Novel - Illustrated Edition
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
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A landmark work of literary fiction, Life of Pi chronicles the extraordinary survival story of Piscine Molitor Patel — Pi — a sixteen-year-old boy from Pondicherry, India, whose family sets sail for Canada with their zoo animals, only for the ship to sink in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded on a lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, Pi must summon every ounce of ingenuity and spiritual faith to survive 227 days at sea. Martel crafts the narrative with a tone that is simultaneously wondrous and harrowing, weaving together themes of religion, storytelling, and the nature of reality into a seamless philosophical adventure. The novel argues, with quiet but profound conviction, that the stories we choose to believe are inseparable from how we endure the unendurable. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi stands as a modern classic that challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between truth, myth, and the human will to survive.
Author: Yann Martel
Format: Hardback
Published: 2007, Canongate
Genre: Adventure fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary fiction, Life of Pi chronicles the extraordinary survival story of Piscine Molitor Patel — Pi — a sixteen-year-old boy from Pondicherry, India, whose family sets sail for Canada with their zoo animals, only for the ship to sink in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded on a lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, Pi must summon every ounce of ingenuity and spiritual faith to survive 227 days at sea. Martel crafts the narrative with a tone that is simultaneously wondrous and harrowing, weaving together themes of religion, storytelling, and the nature of reality into a seamless philosophical adventure. The novel argues, with quiet but profound conviction, that the stories we choose to believe are inseparable from how we endure the unendurable. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi stands as a modern classic that challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between truth, myth, and the human will to survive.