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Book Review of Life of Pi

Life of Pi
Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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A real adventure,outrageous as it seems, it wins your heart, and makes you regain faith once again in the inner strength a boy can have in the face of danger and death.
When Pi Patel is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks, and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450 pound Bengal tiger.
Pi's fear, knowledge and cleverness keep him alive.