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Life of Pi
Yann Martel. Harvest Books: 2003 (paperback). ISBN: 0156027321. 336 pages.



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How to describe this meaty and miraculous novel? Well, it's kind of like The Old Man and the Sea meets The Black Stallion, only quite a bit better than either of those two respectable tomes. A smallish Indian sets sail for Canada with his family, accompanied by the remaining animals of the former family zoo.

A mysterious shipwreck leaves Pi the sole survivor, well, almost the sole survivor; he is stranded alone on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean, with only an enormous and very hungry full-grown male Bengal tiger for company. The water around him is churning with sharks. This heart-thumping story is so strong and so good that you can almost hear the water around Martel churning with publishers vying to acquire the paperback rights. You'll race to finish the novel, but you won't forget it in a hurry -- unique, awesome, and utterly necessary. 2002 winner of the prestigious Booker Prize.

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