LIFE OF PI
AUTHOR: YANN MARTELThe 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, 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
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.