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
2012 Man Booker Prize careers of her two brothers. As Busner's experiment shows unexpected consequences, it appears the encephalitic patients' condition – with their endless repetition of mechanical movements – is little more than a manifestation of the condition of 20th century man. Will Self's career has seen the publication of a great number of works of fiction and non-fiction alike, yet "Umbrella" is the first novel for which he has been shortlisted for a Booker Prize. The novel has been compared to James Joyce's "Ulysses" because of its stream of consciousness literary style. Self, however, insisted that the formalism was "always of secondary