揚•馬特爾(Yann Martel)
一九六三年齣生於西班牙,父母是加拿大人。幼時曾旅居哥斯達黎加、法國、墨西哥、加拿大,成年後作客伊朗、土耳其及印度。畢業於加拿大特倫特大學哲學係,其後從事過各種稀奇古怪的行業,包括植樹工、洗碗工、保安等。
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.
發表於2024-07-08
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故事開始時是作者虛構自己的第一部小說如何不成功。為重新開始,為與失敗的小說有個地理上的瞭結以便有精神上的瞭結,作者遠赴國外。在國外遇到不少人。聽說他是作傢,有不少人會講述自以為很神奇的故事,希望作者也許會感興趣,日後會將故事寫入小說。作者一點都不感興趣。事...
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圖書標籤: ManBooker 英文原版 英文 布剋奬 小說 印度 india adventure
隻有在死亡臨近之時,道德纔不會陷入兩難。如果不是先看電影應該會更好呢。
評分Without Richard Parker, I would have already had died.
評分Pi Patel: "Don't worry, you won't. He's hiding somewhere you'll never find him."
評分Magical and wildly good.
評分nice ending,
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