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
Bronze Tiger Bronze Tiger Bronze Tiger (Ben Turner) is a fictional character, a supervillain and antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Michael Jai White portrays Bronze Tiger in the second and seventh seasons of The CW television series "Arrow". Bronze Tiger first appeared in "Dragon's Fists", a novel by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Berry which starred Richard Dragon. Bronze Tiger's first DC Comics appearance was in "Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter". Ben Turner comes from an upper middle class black neighborhood in Central City. When he was only 10 years old, he saw a burglar attacking his parents,