Life of Pi (film) Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat, and realizes that caring for the tiger is also helping keep himself alive. Weeks later they encounter a floating island of interconnected trees. It is a lush jungle of edible plants, fresh water pools and a large population of meerkats, enabling Pi and Richard Parker to eat and drink freely and regain strength. At night, the island transforms into a hostile environment. Richard Parker retreats to the lifeboat while Pi and the meerkats sleep in the trees; the water pools turn acidic, digesting the fish in them. Pi deduces that
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