Life of Pi sort of with a capital 'S' – something that would direct my life." He spoke of being lonely and needing direction in his life, and found that writing the novel met this need. The name of Martel's tiger, Richard Parker, was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838). In this book, Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship (and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger). The author also had in mind another occurrence
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