Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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,...

"My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person's perspective—Pi's perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc." — Tomislav Torjanac

The modern classic and international bestseller is now brought to splendid, eye-popping life with forty

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Trivia-on-Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Yann Martel takes readers on an incredible journey with Life of Pi. With the crisis surrounding India, Santosh and Gita Patel decided to leave India and move to Canada with their sons. First, they have to sell the animals, and the few remaining animals they have to take with them on a freighter and cross the ocean to reach their destination. A huge storm sinks the ship while it was sailing the Mariana's trench...

Life of Pi by Yann Martel Digest & Review With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • Digest of the book Life of Pi • Reviews of the book and author • The reception of the book and reader's reactions • Stories beyond the digest • And more! Disclaimer: This digest is an unofficial reader's guide to aide informed decisions, enhancing appreciation of the book. This is NOT a summary and does not contain any text of the original book. What Others...

Based on the bestselling fantasy adventure novel, Life of Pi took home the most honors at the 85th Academy Awards: it won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. Here are lovely piano solo arrangements of 15 pieces from Mychael Danna's powerful soundtrack. Includes: First Night, First Day * The Island * Pi and Richard Parker * Pi's Lullaby * Pondicherry * Tiger Training * Tsimtsum * and more.

A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Diversely illustrated with 275 photographs and illustrations, The Making of Life of Pi tells the inside story of how renowned Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee brought Yann Martel's international bestseller to life as a 3-D film.

With a rich, entertaining text and a wide variety of facts, anecdotes, visual portfolios, and sidebars sure to delight readers of all ages, The Making of Life of Pi follows the making of the

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A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation,...

The story of a boy, a boat, and a tiger promises an adventure which some may find hard to believe and thoughtful questions to consider. Can miracles exist? What is the power of faith? What guarantees successful survival? Yann Martel's Life of Pi is an extraordinary book that leaves you grappling with the concept of miracles, storytelling, and adventure. Bookclub-in-a-Box looks at Martel's ideas and presents look at the importance of imagination

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