As Pi struggles to coexist on a lifeboat with a tiger, he comes to understand the human condition. Pi and a Bengal tiger are the only survivors. They leave India by boat, but the ship sinks on the way. In the midst of this, the protagonist, Piscine Patel (known as Pi) emigrates from India to Canada with his family. Set against the backdrop of a period of Indian history known as the Emergency, the novel opens in the southern Indian city of Pondicherry, which was once the capital of French India, and the story explores the tensions facing this tiny city during a time of deep political turmoil. Considered most simply, Yann Martel's acclaimed novel, Life of Pi (2001), can be described as a postcolonial novel, focusing on the culture and stories of a former British colony (in this case, India.) But to see this novel only as a postcolonial story is to limit its possibilities.
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