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Life of Pi

Genre
Drama
Rating
PG
Released
21 November, 2012
Life of Pi

Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger which raises questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told. He is part of a Hindi speaking family The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year. It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee. The French translation L'Histoire de Pi was chosen in the French CBC version of the contest Le combat des livres, where it was championed by Louise Forestier.

Author Yann Martel
Original title Life of Pi
Publisher Knopf Canada
Preceded by Self
Followed by Beatrice and Virgil

關於Life of Pi

Survival fantasy drama based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Yann Martel centering on an Indian man named Pi who survived a shipwreck as a teenager in which his family dies.

Life of Pi的成就

The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. It won four Academy Awards (the most of the night), including a win for Best Director.

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Travel novels.. Solitude in fiction.. Canadian novels adapted into plays.. Canadian travel books.. Castaways in fiction.. Books about spirituality.. Canadian fantasy novels.. Canadian magic realism novels.. Novels set in the Pacific Ocean.. Biographical novels.. Canadian novels adapted into films.. Philosophical novels.. Novels about animals.. Metafictional novels.. Novels set in India.. Fiction with unreliable narrators.. Alfred A. Knopf books.

關於Life of Pi的最新信息於2021年7月28日更新.