Life of Pi (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Yann Martel
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1961 to the present
- Setting: Pondicherry, the Pacific Ocean, Mexico, and Toronto
- Principal Characters: Piscine Molitor Patel, Richard Parker, author
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Suffering, Traveling or travelers, Tigers, Despair, Immigration or emigration, Canada or Canadians, India or East Indian people, Ships, Metaphysics, Mexico or Mexicans, Loneliness, Animals, Pacific Ocean, Animals, dangerous, Boats or boating, Ocean, Survival
- Locales: Mexico, Toronto, Canada, Pacific Ocean
“In Life of Pi we have chosen an audacious book in which inventiveness explores belief,” said Lisa Jardine, chair of the committee which selected Yann Martel’s novel for the 2002 Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most publicized and arguably most prestigious literary award. The choice was surprising given the competition; the shortlist comprised Sarah Waters, Tim Winton, the venerable William Trevor, and three Canadians: Carol Shields, dying of breast cancer; Rohinton Mistry, all three of whose novels have been shortlisted for the Booker, and Martel. Although the dark horse,...
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