Life of Pi Life of Pi Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The UK edition won
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel) of children's tales but with nightmarish or gruesome elements, similar to Grimm's Fairy Tales. "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", like his earlier "The Palm-Wine Drinkard", is heavily metaphorical and autobiographical. The title of the 1981 album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" by David Byrne and Brian Eno was taken from this novel. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel) My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a novel by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, published in 1954. It is presented as a collection of related - but not always sequential - narratives. The stories recount