A science fiction adventure novel written by Canadian Yann Martel. Indian man survives 227 days in a boat with a Bengal tiger after his boat capsizes in the Pacific Ocean
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Each chapter is an adventure!
Pi Patel is a young man from India whose father owns a zoo in that country. This is an atheist man of science, while his mother is a woman of Hindu faith and introduces him to religion, which arouses his spiritual curiosity.
Meanwhile, a political event forces Pi's father to sell the animals to another zoo in the United States of America and move to Canada. The trip must be made by boat to transport the animals. Pi resists, but he has no choice but to leave and promise Anandi that they will be together again.
Pi must share the boat with his only companion: the fearsome wild beast Richard Parker, whom he must tame. The question is: who will prevail: the beast or the human being?
Pi lives six months of drifting adventures in the company of the tiger Pi is rescued and taken to the hospital where he receives primary care. Once there, two officials from the ship's insurance agency ask the young man to relate the facts in order to file a damage and liability report. Patel relates this story, but they don't believe him.
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