Life of Pi tranquilizer darts while her cub escapes hiding in a bush. Parker names the cub Thirsty after his enthusiasm when drinking from a nearby river. The paperwork that accompanies the shipment of the two tigers to Pi's family's zoo in Pondicherry states that the cub's name is "Richard Parker" and the hunter's given name is "Thirsty" and his surname is "None Given", due to a mix-up with the names. Pi's father finds the story so amusing that they continue to call the tiger "Richard Parker". Brian Bethune of "Maclean's" describes "Life of Pi" as a "head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory,
Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger and xenophobia form part of everyday life. The novel has been published in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Italy and will be published in the fall of 2010 by Knopf in the US. 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