Life of Pi

扬•马特尔（Yann Martel）一九六三年出生于西班牙，父母是加拿大人。幼时曾旅居哥斯达黎加、法国、墨西哥、加拿大，成年后作客伊朗、土耳其及印度。毕业于加拿大特伦特大学哲学系，其后从事过各种稀奇古怪的行业，包括植树工、洗碗工、保安等。

出版者:Canongate Pub Ltd

作者:[英] Yann Martel

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出版时间:2004-10-30

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装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781841954257

图书标签:ManBooker英文原版英文布克奖小说印度indiaadventure

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?

Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

读后感

看这本书是因为看了李安拍的同名电影的预告片。一只孟加拉虎与人生活在同一条船上吸引我。促使我去寻书过来看，因为中文版是2005年的，市面上几乎找不到了，最后终于从可爱的图书馆里找了它，可爱的图书管理员还给它加了塑料皮套。 在这里我要再一次谴责一下那坑...  

看这本书是因为看了李安拍的同名电影的预告片。一只孟加拉虎与人生活在同一条船上吸引我。促使我去寻书过来看，因为中文版是2005年的，市面上几乎找不到了，最后终于从可爱的图书馆里找了它，可爱的图书管理员还给它加了塑料皮套。 在这里我要再一次谴责一下那坑...  

电影里那些飘水花灯、印度舞、暴雨沉船、辽阔海面、飞鱼来袭，浮岛幻影等炫酷镜头透过3D眼镜扑过来让我瞪大眼伸长脖在不舒服的椅子里坐到脊柱炸鞭也不觉着亏，而且故事这么弱，前后也不连贯，迟到半钟头去上个厕所活动活动或者睡一觉起来都不耽误，真是老少妇孺咸宜的漂...  

故事开始时是作者虚构自己的第一部小说如何不成功。为重新开始，为与失败的小说有个地理上的了结以便有精神上的了结，作者远赴国外。在国外遇到不少人。听说他是作家，有不少人会讲述自以为很神奇的故事，希望作者也许会感兴趣，日后会将故事写入小说。作者一点都不感兴趣。事...  

用户评价

电影看了很多遍，情节熟记于心，已经很喜欢了，而再读小说依然惊喜连连。《少年pi的奇幻漂流》这个译名稍微削弱了这个故事的沉重感，原名《Life of Pi》似乎更佳。小说作者用轻盈且几乎诗意的语言，承载住了故事里那些残酷、荒诞、冲突、彷徨和挣扎，就好像书中Pi在漂流时，无数个一边伴随威胁生命的猛虎，一边抬头看到海面上绚烂奇景的瞬间。

只有在死亡临近之时，道德才不会陷入两难。如果不是先看电影应该会更好呢。

Without Richard Parker, I would have already had died.

Without Richard Parker, I would have already had died.

amazing!