Life of Pi
460 pages
|Published: 11 Sep 2001
|Editions
|Details
This edition
ISBN: 9780770430078
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Seal Books
Publication date: 29 August 2006
Description
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.