Life of Pi is a gripping tale of survival, where a young boy named Pi must use his wits to survive with a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck. The book explores themes of faith, spirituality, and the power of storytelling, all while keeping the reader on the edge of their seat with its thrilling adventure. It's a must-read for anyone who enjoys a good adventure story with a deeper meaning.

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• Booker Prize (2002)
• Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2003)
• Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2003)
• Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) for Belletristik (2004)
• Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee for Fiction (2001)
• Lincoln Award Nominee (2005)
• CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2003)
• Luisterboek Award Nominee (2015)
• QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (2001)
• Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2003)

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.

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