Comment on the fantasy drifting of juvenile Pi

This book is "an elegant proof of the existence of God, which perfectly demonstrates the power of stories".

-US President Barack Obama

We need this story, of course, not to hide our animality, but to have confidence in our humanity.

-Writer Zhou

Pi does not read "fart" but "pie", which is the most real and mysterious number.

-book reviewer Bao Xiao

I would like to see it as a novel about the relationship between myself and the world (the universe). If 20 12 is the ending, this book can be left to anyone who survives. It has too many meanings.

-sculptor Xiang Jing

There is a Richard Parker in everyone's heart. It will shout out when it is in danger, covet people, but live alone with them.

-Users

Make the impossible possible. It pushes the imagination of literature to another new frontier, which is fantastic, naive, realistic and meaningful. The fantasy journey of teenagers has finally turned into an amazing reading journey!

── critic nan Fang Shuo

This novel is full of temptation because it is so beautiful. I can't bear to repeat its plot ... adventure, suspense, fluency, faith. This is a delicious meal that readers of any era will not refuse, let alone today.

-book reviewer Dai Xinwei

The strangest novel for many years, and also the easiest to read ... the fantasy drifting of juvenile PI, which combines anecdotes, fables and moral stories.

-The Economist is false and true, and it is also true and false-Preface to Katie's translation (part)

This book is a strange novel in every way. It is a gripping adventure story, a fable about the position of human beings in the universe, and a fascinating super novel. Wit makes it more energetic, and terror adds interest to it. This is the work of an unusual genius.

I can't say that this novel is a great literary work, nor is martel a great writer, but he is a master storyteller. The opening preface of the novel is also true or false. Described in the first person, it basically tells martel's own experience: after the publication of the first novel, such as Shi Niu into the water, only a few hundred copies were sold, and no one cared; The second novel lost its inspiration at the beginning, so the author left Canada to look for inspiration in India. He met a man in a coffee shop under the Himalayas. The Indian wise man said, "I have a story that will make you believe in God." Then this man introduced Patel, a family friend who lives in Canada. The author returned to Canada, found Patel, and listened to Patel tell the story of his life, thus forming this book.

The first part of the novel is about the author's interview with Patel in Canada, Patel's memories of his childhood in India, his parents, brothers and uncles, his school teachers and friends of his family, and all kinds of animals in their zoo. In Canada, every time I interviewed him in a book, I gradually discovered Patel's private life. First of all, I found that he was not alone. He has a wife. It turned out that he had a teenage son. At the end of the interview, people realized that Patel had a lovely four-year-old daughter. "I" was quite emotional: "At least, this story has a happy ending." But a large part of the text in this first part is boring. It is worth mentioning Patel's name. His large name is PiscineMolitorPatel, which is named after a swimming pool in Paris, but Piscine is homophonic with English urine, so Patel was often teased by his classmates at school since he was a child, so he decided to simplify his name to Pi, which he thought was a cool name.

The best advice for reading this novel is patience. When the first part of the novel ends, Patel's father decides to immigrate to Canada with animals, and their Japanese cargo ship floats in the Pacific Ocean. martel's narrative is full of charm that you can't refuse.

When the Japanese freighter crashed, Patel was thrown into a lifeboat by two sailors as bait for feeding hyenas. Fortunately, he survived by landing on the canopy of a lifeboat, so he began to drift at sea for 227 days. Besides hyenas, there is a zebra with a broken leg, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger. The Bengal tiger was registered because of the mistake of customs officials. In the first three days on the lifeboat, hyenas killed orangutans and ate zebras alive. Richard Parker killed hyenas. Then, Patel's story, a boy of 16 years old, how to deal with Richard Parker's story when he lives at sea.

At first, all Patel could think about was how to kill the tiger and regain his living space in the lifeboat. He came up with six strategies to deal with tigers. First, he pushed it off the lifeboat. Second, kill it with six needles of morphine in the lifeboat storage room; Third, attack it with all available weapons; Fourth, choke it with something; Fifth, poison it, set it on fire and electrocute it; Sixth, instead of fighting a war of attrition. But when you think about it, these six points are useless. Patel realized that if he struggled with Richard Parker, he would only lose himself; He noticed that after the waves calmed down and the lifeboat was full of animal remains, the tiger was as friendly to him as a lovely big cat. Finally, Patel came to the conclusion that he had only one way of life, and that was to ensure food and water in Richard Parker. As long as the tiger is not hungry, it is not in danger. Patel found the fishing rod from the lifeboat storage room and took out the desalter. The boy who was born a vegetarian began to become an expert in sea fishing, dissecting turtles and fish. In addition, Patel also started the process of taming tigers based on the experience he accumulated when growing up in the zoo. First, he took advantage of the tiger's seasickness. Second, he let the tiger know that he is the source of food and water. He even defeated the tiger's arrogance by playing with Richard Parker's excrement. Gradually, Richard Parker finally understood that Patel was the boss, and he was the second child in the lifeboat. Martel's description of taming tigers, after the most detailed investigation and study, makes you feel the desire to become a circus animal trainer. More importantly, this process of taming tigers is also the process of young Patel evolving into an adult man.