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Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. 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"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. 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. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement "a story that will make you believe in God," as one character says. The peripatetic Pi (ne the much-taunted Piscine) Patel spends a beguiling boyhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper. Growing up beside the wild beasts, Pi gathers an encyclopedic knowledge of the animal world. His curious mind also makes the leap from his native Hinduism to Christianity and Islam, all three of which he practices with joyous abandon. In his 16th year, Pi sets sail with his family and some of their menagerie to start a new life in Canada. Halfway to Midway Island, the ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi stranded on a life raft with a hyena, an orangutan, an injured zebra and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After the beast dispatches the others, Pi is left to survive for 227 days with his large feline companion on the 26-foot-long raft, using all his knowledge, wits and faith to keep himself alive. The scenes flow together effortlessly, and the sharp observations of the young narrator keep the tale brisk and engaging. Martel's potentially unbelievable plot line soon demolishes the reader's defenses, cleverly set up by events of young Pi's life that almost naturally lead to his biggest ordeal. This richly patterned work, Martel's second novel, won Canada's 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. In it, Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
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Who is Richard Parker?,
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Pi is a young Indian boy who lives with his family in Pondicherry, an ex-French enclave in southern India. His father owns a zoo, which is also their home until one day the family decide to emigrate to Canada. During the long voyage by sea, the ship in which they travel on capsizes but Pi manages to land in a lifeboat with some unusual guests aboard. Thus begins his long and lonely journey of survival...I don't usually pick up a book that has won a serious prize as I tend to think that they are too intellectual and too deep for me but the few words on the back cover caught my attention. I wasn't hooked immediately but was soon after Pi boarded his Noah's Ark. I felt like I was riding a wave of emotions as I accompanied Pi through his long struggle to survive. I felt his fear for Richard Parker and his triumph when the whistle he blew conquered Richard Parker. I could feel his joy and his misery of the downpours of rain and the scorching of the midday sun. The book is a wealth of discovery. How do you fish in the middle of the ocean? How do you know how to eat a turtle? How do you catch the rain? Not a book for the fainthearted though nor for vegetarians. The description of death of the zebra was not a pretty sight. And as for Pi salivating for the taste of Richard Parker's excrement, I must admit I was fascinated to find out Pi's degustation. A very original book which I would highly recommend! Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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Un livre plein d'humanité,
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Martel est un grand conteur. Ce livre raconte le voyage extraordinaire de Pi tout en posant des questions philosophiques sur la religion/ croyance entre autres mais sans tomber dans le registre des allégories simples. Ce roman ambitieux est destiné à devenir un classique. Le style est agréable et surtout facile d'accès, nous documentant sur de nombreux thèmes. Son originalité réside également sur le foisonnement de niveaux de lecture, offrant ainsi à chacun la possibilité de choisir la sienne. A lire et à relire. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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Best Read of 2003,
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I was offered this last year before it won the Booker prize. I don't unsually go chasing after 'Prize-winner's but this is a truly exceptional book. Hovering between fantasy and biography, madness and rationality, dreaming and awakening the reader is literally bowled over in waves of emotion ranging from love, grief, joy, hope, despair, humour, all set on a small boat in the middle of the ocean with only bengal tiger for company. (I read this morning that there are only about 500 of this species left in the world. Perhaps some of the takings for the book could go towards their preservation?) Anyway, it's definitely not one to miss out on. I just wish I could read it again for the first time!!
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