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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Life of Pi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Life of Pi is a novel by Canadian author Yann Martel.
		Life of Pi was chosen for Year 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee.
		The end, in which Pi is rescued and the "reality" of his entire experience at sea is called into question, offers more insights into the twin thirst for survival and faith.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Life_of_Pi (615 words)

	Life of Pi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pi manages to find refuge on a lifeboat, where he finds himself sharing space with a female orangutan, a wounded zebra and a hyena, having managed to stop a tiger named Richard Parker from coming aboard.
		Pi eventually marks his own territory, and uses his knowledge of zoology to tame the tiger.
		When Pi is rescued and taken to a hospital two men representing the Japanese Ministry of Transport quiz him on his remarkable story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_of_Pi (1341 words)

	Amazon.ca: Life of Pi: Books: Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing.
		LIFE OF PI is told by the central character, Pi, whose real name Piscene (pool) has been distorted in childhood to Pissing, assumes a name that measures the diameter of a circle, the symbol of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
		Pi tells two stories of being lost at sea--one story of a miraculous survival for 277 days of a boy on a boat with a Bengal tiger and another story of cannibalism and murder on that same boat whose occupants are Pi, a cook, Pi's mother, and a Taiwanese sailor.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676973779 (1554 words)

	Book Review - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		Pi Patel is an earnest young man in Pondicherry, a tiny area in southern India which was once part of French India (one of the many obscure facts that Yann Martel scatters throughout his story).
		Pi even tells the reader how a lion tamer controls his charges by being the alpha male, asserting his dominance and providing for their needs so they stay submissive to him.
		Pi is cast adrift in a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a huge Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /life_of_pi/review (1106 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound.
		Pi’s family life is quite happy, even though his brother picks on him and his parents aren’t quite sure how to accept his decision to simultaneously embrace and practise three religions -- Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam.
		The castaways face gruelling pain in their brushes with starvation, illness, and the storms that lash the small boat, but there is also the solace of beauty: the rainbow hues of a dorado’s death-throes, the peaceful eye of a looming whale, the shimmering blues of the ocean’s swells.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0676973779 (1373 words)

	Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Life of Pi: "Martel is a writer who'll be difficult to predict.
		Life of Pi: “[M]artel’s writing is so original you might think he wants you to read as if, like a perfect snowflake, no other book had ever had this form.
		Life of Pi: “[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe’s most Gothic fictionOddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate.
	www.randomhouse.ca /newface/martel.php (765 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		When the ship in which 16-year-old Pi and his zookeeping family are to emigrate from India to Canada sinks, leaving him the sole human survivor in a lifeboat on to which barge a zebra, a hyena, an orang-utan and a bedraggled, seasick tiger, Pi is determined to survive the impossible.
		Like a lion tamer in the circus ring, Pi must convince the tiger that he is the super-alpha male, using toots on his whistle as a whip and the sea as a source of treats, marking the boundary of his territory on the boat with urine and fierce, quaking stares.
		Pi characterises this adaptive leap of faith as "that measure of madness that moves life in strange but saving ways"; in other words, his coexistence with the tiger is possible precisely because it has never happened before.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,721434,00.html (651 words)

	"Life of Pi," by Yann Martel - Salon
		But then again, in Yann Martel's "Life of Pi," our hero Pi (yes, as in 3.14, though his full name is Piscine, the French word for "pool") has just survived a sinking ship in the Pacific Ocean and witnessed the death of his family.
		Pi's father taught him that the most dangerous creature in the zoo is "the animal as seen through human eyes...
		Pi's story is so extraordinary that when he finally makes it ashore, he offers a comparatively boring version of the tale to two researchers, acknowledging that humans don't have much of a taste for the miraculous.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/08/01/martel/index.html (636 words)

	Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel \| PopMatters Book Review
		Life of Pi is Zen to the nth degree.
		Pi becomes increasingly convinced that his fate and the tiger's are inextricably linked, and over the months they are together, he develops an ever-deepening relationship with the animal.
		Pi has overcome external and internal obstacles, and become, in the words of the Bhagadvadgita, a "true devotee": "He who is beyond excitement and repulsion, who complains not and lusts not for things, who remains unmoved by good and evil fortune, and who has love.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/l/life-of-pi.shtml (2396 words)

	Life of Pi by Yann Martel - read excerpt
		Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
		But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
		Life of Pi is the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction in 2001.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/lifeofpi.htm (1785 words)

	Teenreads.com - LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel
		When sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only a menacing 450-pound Bengal tiger for company, he quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to make sure the tiger is more afraid of him than he is of it.
		Pi's full name, Piscine Molitor Patel, was inspired by a Parisian swimming pool that "the gods would have delighted to swim in." The shortened form refers to the ratio of a circle's circumference divided by its diameter.
		Discussing his work in the first chapter, Pi says that a necktie is a noose, and he mentions some of the things that he misses about India (in spite of his love for Canada).
	www.teenreads.com /guides/life_of_pi1.asp (1067 words)

	Life of Pi by Yann Martell, published by Allen and Unwin
		The story of Pi's survival is, on the one hand, a classic high-sea survival account, a gruelling tale of one boy's survival at sea on a raft against all that nature throws at him.
		I thought the character Pi with his religous complexity was fascinating (Pi is a Hindu and converts to Christianity and Islam with equal fervour) and the portrayal of the tiger, Richard Parker, is both powerful and beautiful.
		Pi's vegetarian character bends where it has to (eating meat when he's starving) but doesn't break, remembering that being as compassionate as possible is essential, even when perfect compassion isn't possible.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/13lifeofpi.htm (10327 words)

	Life of Pi
		We first meet Pi as a youth in India; he is spiritually precocious, and curious to the point of obsession.
		And there are times when Pi’s vision of life, so cramped by circumstance, is jolted by the unexpected: an assault by a flock of flying fish, a shocking encounter with another castaway, a battle between the tiger and a shark.
		Pi is uniquely spiritual in his interaction with the environment in which he finds himself.
	archives.umc.org /interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=2228 (1023 words)

	Life of Pi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pi’s father is a zoo-keeper, and so the cargo ship on which they travel is laden with cages of animals which Mr.
		On another level the novel is an exploration of zoos, their management and ethics, the life cycle of various animals, and something of what is required to survive in a lifeboat adrift in the Pacific.
		On the deepest level, however, Life of Pi is a meditation on faith, its relationship to truth, science, and religion, and the centrality of story to finding meaning in life—all viewed from a profoundly postmodern perspective.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /R_Martel.html (1546 words)

	'Life of Pi': Taming the Tiger
		Although ''Life of Pi'' works remarkably well on the pure adrenaline-and-testosterone level of a high-seas adventure tale, it's apparent that Martel is not interested in simply retelling the classic lifeboat-survival story (with a Bengal tiger playing the prickly Tallulah Bankhead role).
		Pi, after all, is a practitioner of three major religions who also happens to have a strong background in science; with such a broad resume, his story inevitably takes on the quality of a parable.
		In one of the more cinematic moments in the novel, Pi catches a bioluminescent dorado and must pummel it to death with the dull side of a hatchet: ''The dorado did a most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colors in rapid succession.
	home.att.net /~gkrist/pi.htm (987 words)

	Amazon.com: Life of Pi: Books: Yann Martel,grace laciste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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").
		In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156027321?v=glance (2168 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Yann Martel - Life of Pi: A Novel at Epinions.com
		Life of Pi by Yann Martel is the closest thing to narrative perfection I have ever encountered.
		But slowly Pi begins to realize that it does not have to be that way, and in fact, his survival depends on saving the tiger, not killing him.
		Life of Pi is undoubtedly unlike anything you have ever read (or may ever read again).
	www.epinions.com /content_150962540164 (818 words)

	Ink 19 :: Life Of Pi
		Life Of Pi, on the other hand, is different.
		Pi -- Piscine Molitor Patel, that is, named after a French swimming pool -- is a young boy whose family runs a zoo in India.
		Always funny and brilliant, Life Of Pi is equally and as importantly a poignant and deeply moving novel that refuses to give up either hope or belief.
	www.ink19.com /issues/july2002/printReviews/lifeOfPi.html (876 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Life of Pi: Books: Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique.
		His blissful voyage is rudely interrupted when his boat is scuppered halfway across the Pacific, and he is forced to rough it in a lifeboat with a hyena, a monkey, a whingeing zebra and a tiger called Richard.
		Beginning with Pi growing up in his father's zoo, Martel uses the opportunity to inform us of Pi's outlooks on early life with the animals, with a breathtaking defense of zoos.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/184195392X (1220 words)

	Book Reviews - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		Life of Pi is the story of a 16-year old Indian boy adrift at sea for 227 days with only a dangerous Bengal tiger for a companion.
		Pi Patel's journey, and survival through the use of his wits and sheer determination, is one that grabs you and never lets go.
		Yann Martel is a master story teller and he weaves a tale that is entertaining and thought-provoking and at the end, he challenges you to believe it all.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /life_of_pi (133 words)

	Life of Pi
		Young Pi is a character for which I felt tremendous compassion - when he realized that his parents and brother were not going to appear on the horizon to snatch him to safety, I nearly wept with him.
		I was so involved with Pi and wanted things to work out for him so much, that like the narrator, I was completely delighted to discover that the older Pi is married with a child.
		In chapter 10 (page 44), Pi states: "But even animals that were bred in zoos and have never known the wild, that are perfectly adapted to their enclosures and feel no tension in the presence of humans, will have moments of excitement that push them to seek to escape.
	www.kelnetcreations.com /bookclub/pi.htm (2974 words)

	Castaway With Karma - TIME Asia Magazine, Sep. 02, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The tiger is a threat to Pi's body, but then becomes the key to his spiritual survival in a sea of isolation.
		Pi and his family decide to emigrate to Canada, zoo animals in tow, but their ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi and the tiger—named Richard Parker due to circumstances that would take too long to describe here—bobbing in a lifeboat.
		If Life of Pi is not quite a story to make you believe in God, it may convince you that when it comes to existence, we're all in the same boat.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020902-344145,00.html (733 words)

	Life of Pi by Yann Martel : Booksamillion.com (0156027321, Paperback)
		Life of Pi Martel won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for this wonderfully original novel, which recounts the remarkable life of Pi Patel.
		The son of a zookeeper, Pi is raised in Pondicherry, India, with a deep understanding of the natural world and a curiosity about religion that leads him from Hinduism to Christianity to Islam and beyond.
		But a shipwreck leaves Pi drifting in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger for company.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0156027321&ad=ALA6001 (328 words)

	Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		Pi Patel has been raised in a zoo in India.
		The ship sinks, and 16-year-old Pi finds himself alone on a lifeboat in the Pacific with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
		A realistic, rousing adventure and meta-tale of survival, Life of Pi explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction.
	www.highbridgeaudio.com /lifeofpibr.html (237 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, Paperback
		In addition to Life of Pi, Martel is the prize-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, and of Self, a novel, both published internationally.
		Life of Pi is a magnificent book but although I enjoyed it, Life of Pi was not a book meant for everyone.
		Life of Pi is not just about survival and endurance, but also about how people can apply their knowledge and beliefs.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0156027321&itm=1 (1931 words)

	Reader's Club: Book Review for Life of Pi
		In Pondicherry, India, Pi is a zookeeper’s inquisitive son, and seeker after God who gleefully embraces Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam.
		Pi ends up on a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker -- a 450-pound Bengal tiger who soon eats all but Pi.
		Life of Pi makes a strong statement about the relationship of man to animals and the natural environment.
	www.readersclub.org /reviews/tresults.asp?id=2189 (293 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Life of Pi: Review
		Pi, Hindu-born, has a talent for faith and sees nothing wrong with being converted both to Islam and to Christianity.
		Pi and his brother understand animals intimately, but their father impresses on them the dangers of anthropomorphism: invade an animal's territory, and you will quickly find that nearly every creature is dangerous.
		Pi finds himself adrift with an orang-utan, zebra, hyena and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2002/story/0,12350,817321,00.html (301 words)

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