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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a
cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue
Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old
boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set
for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction
in recent years.
X-kit Achieve! Literature Study Guides make nationally prescribed novels and dramas accessible to learners to help them prepare for exams.
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This study guide concentrates on Life Of Pi, one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan -- and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With
nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes
in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman
carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator
begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp
called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith,
Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and
magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent
Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List
#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller
List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's
Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller
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Life of Pi (Paperback)
Lolita Chakrabarti; Yann Martel
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R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "Life of Pi will
make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times). After a cargo
ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five
survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan,
a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is
against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Based on one of
the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction - winner of
the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide
- and featuring breath-taking puppetry and state-of-the-art
visuals, Life of Pi is a universally acclaimed, smash hit
adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope. Adapted by
acclaimed playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, this edition was published
to coincide with the West End premiere in November 2021.
NOW ON BROADWAY The international bestseller and modern classic of
adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an
award-winning play. After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary
lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only
survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a
hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan--and a 450-pound Royal Bengal
tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear,
knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, Richard
Parker, for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the
coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be
seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to
believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After
hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less
fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true? Life of
Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of
survival that explores the transformative nature of fiction. It's a
story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With
nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes
in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman
carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator
begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp
called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith,
Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and
magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent
Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List
#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller
List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's
Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller
This graphically compelling, diversely illustrated volume is a
behind-the-scenes look at Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's
most ambitious film to date, "Life of Pi", an adaptation of Yann
Martel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize-winning
novel. The book includes a foreword by Martel and an introduction
by Lee. This 3-D film is released on December 21, 2012.
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of
animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen,
his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese
cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only
companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard
Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all
but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist
with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they
finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the
jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who
interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell
them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story,
a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it
more true?
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense
love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter
as 'Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece'. One
day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced
upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker - and fell
passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually
they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker's impecunious
circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from
Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States.
Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately
tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth
bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided
the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and
immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written - 'By Grand
Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'. Originally published in 1945,
this remarkable book is now widely identified as a classic work of
poetic prose which, seven decades later, has retained all of its
searing poignancy, beauty and power of impact.
This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named
Virgil. It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken
by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it
ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the
most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have
finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.
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Life of Pi (Paperback)
Lolita Chakrabarti; Yann Martel
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R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "Life of Pi will
make you believe in the power of theatre" - The Times After a cargo
ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five
survivors stranded on a lifeboat — a hyena, a zebra, an
orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named
Pi. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Based
on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction
– winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over 15million copies
worldwide – and featuring breath-taking puppetry and
state-of-the-art visuals, Life of Pi is a universally acclaimed,
smash hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.
Adapted by acclaimed playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, this edition
was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in October
2022.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a
cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue
Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old
boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set
for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction
in recent years.
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Self (Paperback, Main)
Yann Martel
2
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R286
R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
Save R18 (6%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of
a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This
extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated,
bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the
thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking
news of an accident abroad. And as adulthood begins, indecisively,
boundaries are crossed between countries, languages and people . .
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This memorable debut, originally published in 1993, was hailed for
its power and elegance on both sides of the Atlantic. Ranging from
the last hours of a condemned man, to the imaginary life of an AIDS
patient, to the first performance of a bizarre new symphony, these
tales are moving and thought-provoking, as inventive in form as
they are timeless in content. They display the startling mix of
dazzle and depth that have made Martel an international phenomenon.
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi.
Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that
startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an
international phenomenon.
Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and
thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting
Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense
musical encounter. Variations of a warden's letter to the mother of
a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its
end. A young man's fascination with the mirror-making machine he
finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the
reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite
title story, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in
fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set
against the yearly march of the twentieth century.
These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future
times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a
one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a
pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their
own games of the survival of the fittest. From a new short story by
William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts
his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland's
balls-out satire of a slightly futuristic Survivor, to Sheila
Heti's meditative romp about beleaguered physicists and Oracle of
Delphi-like Blackberrys, "Darwin's Bastards" is a fast-moving,
thought-provoking reading extravaganza.
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