Description:
The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised
in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting
"religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move
to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they
hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck,
Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat
with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound
Bengal tiger named Richard Parker... ("His head was the size and
color of the lifebuoy, with teeth").
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Behind: Helsinki; Faber and Faber; April 1996
Self; Random House of Canada Ltd; March 1993
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