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,
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