When Life of Pi won the Booker in 2002, Yann Martel himself wrapped up in an unexpected controversy.because the Life of Pi re-imagines the plot of Moacyr Scliar's Max and the Cats. Its religious commentary reminds readers of The Chronicles of Narnia.īut we'd be remiss if we didn't bring up another book that sounds a whole lot like Life of Pi- Max and the Cats. Its magical realism brings to mind the best of Garcia Marquez. We'd call it a Cinderella story, except the plot of Life of Pi is way more bonkers than the story of a girl with small feet who gets married to a prince.īecause this book is several stories thrown together in a blender. Ang Lee directed an actual film version, which went on to win four actual Academy Awards and gross over $609 million actual dollars. The novel went on to sell over three million actual copies. We repeat: that's what actually goes down in this actual winner of the actual Booker Prize.

That's a synopsis, not the set-up for a long joke. He travels halfway across the Pacific, only making a pit-stop on a floating island of algae populated only by meerkats.

The following is what actually happens in the actual book Life of Pi, written by the actual author Yann Martel:Ī sixteen-year-old boy is in a shipwreck, ends up in a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger.

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