Life of Pi (film) supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his
Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger () is the second novel by Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. It was published in 2006 and has received several important literary prizes. It was awarded 2006 year's P O Enquist Prize. Later the same year "Montecore" was nominated for the August literary award. "Montecore" also received Sveriges Radio's Romanpris award for best Swedish novel 2007. The listener jury’s motivation reads: "Because Jonas Hassen Khemiri leaves his mark on every single word in "Montecore" in an inspirational “transpiration” of creativity. Montecore is a beautiful, melancholic but also wonderfully