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Life of Pi : a novel

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Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea.

Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the value of religious metaphor, it was one of the most extraordinary and original novels of 2002.

The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo ship on the Pacific, 16 year old Pi spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard Parker ...

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Product Details
Canongate Books Ltd
184195392X / 9781841953922
Paperback
813.54
17/05/2003
United Kingdom
English
General
xiv, 319 p.
20 cm
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Quiz No: 206621, Points 16.00, Book Level 5.70,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Published in Scotland. Originally published: Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2002.