The narrator, Piscine, grows up as the son of the manager of a zoo in Pondicherry. It serves to establish and enforce one of the book's main themes: the relativity of truth. Unusually, the note describes mostly fictional events. The book begins with a note from the author, which is an integral part of the novel. 3.1 Richard Parker and shipwreck narratives.In 2012 it was adapted into a feature film directed by Ang Lee with a screenplay by David Magee. In 2004, it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction for years 2001–2003. The novel won the 2003 Boeke Prize, a South African novel award. The French translation L'Histoire de Pi was chosen in the French CBC version of the contest Le Combat des livres, where it was championed by Louise Forestier. It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee. The UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger which raises questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.
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