Life of Pi (film) family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. A freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg. The ship sinks into the Mariana Trench drowning his family. Pi briefly sees what appears to be a survivor, but it turns out to be Richard Parker. After the storm, Pi awakens in the lifeboat with the zebra, and is joined by a resourceful orangutan. A spotted hyena emerges from under a tarpaulin covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the end of the boat. The hyena kills the zebra and later
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