May 11th, 2012 by Lisa
May Pick: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Our book club pick for May is Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Adated from Harcourt: The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. 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, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Pi’s fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker while lost at sea.
From Goodreads.com: 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. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe.
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Beautiful shot from the movie Life of Pi. Set for release December 2012.
Comment by Annie @ButteryBooks on May 25, 2012 at 9:20 am