Shortly afterwards, three of them succumb to a cruel struggle.
Embracing alterity: animals and religionsĪ hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan, a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker, and Pi himself: these are the five survivors of the storm. That’s when the second part of the book and Pi’s epic adventure at sea begin. After a few days, there is a violent storm and the ship sinks. The family and the animals embark on the Tsimtsum, a Japanese cargo ship. In 1977, when Pi is sixteen, his family decides to emigrate to Canada and sell some of the animals to zoos in North America.
These chapters describe Pi’s childhood, his inner curiosity, and his passion for zoology and religion. The first part of Life of Pi is set in Pondicherry, India, where Piscine Molitor Pater, named after a French swimming pool and known to all as Pi, lives with his zookeeping family. In this way the author is not inventing anything but simply retelling an existing narrative. It explains how he came across Pi’s story in an Indian cafè. Part I: Pi’s childhoodĪt the beginning of the book, the reader finds an author’s note that “ blends fact and fiction with wily charm”. It won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score, and Best Director. In 2012 Taiwan-born director Ang Lee realized its film adaptation. Initially rejected by five publishing houses, the book went on to sell more than ten million copies worldwide. According to the American writer Gary Krist, Life of Pi “could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life”. As Martel says, “it makes you suspend your disbelief”. It is a strange story that works like a good religion. Written in 2001 and winner of the 2002 Man Booker prize, Yann Martel’s Life of Pitells the story of a young boy, Pi, who survives for 227 days in a small lifeboat with a tiger.
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