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。
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. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while 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?
若不是因為布剋奬的緣故,我很可能會將之當成一本講圓周率的數學普及讀本而不幸錯過。然而圓周率也未嘗同整本小說沒有關聯,Yann Martel在一篇采訪中說:“我選擇Pi這個名字,是因為這是個不理性(irrational)的數字,然而科學傢們還是利用這個不理性的數字達成對宇宙的理性認...
評分1、這是一個16歲男孩和一隻成年孟加拉虎在一艘救生船上共同漂流227天的奇幻故事。書的封皮上說:這是一個能讓你産生信仰的故事。我沒能産生信仰,但産生思索。 2、這本小說嚴重教訓瞭我不喜歡先看作者序言的臭毛病!不先看序就會為我的閱讀樂趣交上一大筆時間的學費! 3、結構...
評分看這本書是因為看瞭李安拍的同名電影的預告片。一隻孟加拉虎與人生活在同一條船上吸引我。促使我去尋書過來看,因為中文版是2005年的,市麵上幾乎找不到瞭,最後終於從可愛的圖書館裏找瞭它,可愛的圖書管理員還給它加瞭塑料皮套。 在這裏我要再一次譴責一下那坑...
評分電影裏那些飄水花燈、印度舞、暴雨沉船、遼闊海麵、飛魚來襲,浮島幻影等炫酷鏡頭透過3D眼鏡撲過來讓我瞪大眼伸長脖在不舒服的椅子裏坐到脊柱炸鞭也不覺著虧,而且故事這麼弱,前後也不連貫,遲到半鍾頭去上個廁所活動活動或者睡一覺起來都不耽誤,真是老少婦孺鹹宜的漂...
評分The book had been on my bookshelf for quite some time ,but never seemed inviting enough for reading and I didn't even know what it was about . Because of my recent reading of the Call of the Wild and White Fang , I had this sudden interest in books that h...
Amazing!真真假假 全在你怎麼看 前麵religion story 中間documentary story 最後horror story 難怪老師會推薦 慶幸終於看完瞭
评分omg又是一本拖延癥的傑作,5 months!!! 給四星除瞭因為想給沒讀懂的地方留一些空間外,還有點那種復雜之後迴歸簡單的失落感。(也許是因為看過電影再加上期望又過高?)除瞭奇幻的想像之外,吸引人的還有當代的幽默的語言,青少年的視角,動物學科普,當然多宗教信仰及其影響這一塊幾乎沒看懂(宗教魔術名詞浸淫的前幾章你指望我讀懂多少),總的來說後半部分比前半部分好懂也好理解,而且這是至今為止唯一一本能讓我看到不少地方會心一笑的英文原版!看過中文之後再來對比再來看下麵的書評吧!英文原版總是痛苦總是拖延,要想辦法!一,主動自覺加快速度,速度慢反而容易走神,二,有意識控製自己先理解大意,不要一開始就陷入詞匯,語式和語言特點的桎梏!!
评分故事發展很流暢,推動著我一直往下讀下去。故事還挺奇幻的,前麵的過長的傢裏有動物園的鋪墊後麵得到瞭呼應,也是他為毛能和一隻老虎在船上呆瞭快一年的原因,anyway絕對是難忘的閱讀體驗。期待20號上映的電影!
评分這本書我原先以為不適閤改編成電影的,看過電影後又迴頭來重翻瞭一遍,覺得兩者其實各有韆鞦。不過我給書打分比電影要嚴格一點,四星已經算是不錯的評價瞭,就醬紫。
评分"It‘s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse."我和Pi一樣,相信形式帶來的某種神聖的意義。開年第一本書。
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