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KEY FACTS SUMMARY

Title: Life of Pi

Author: Yann Martel

Date Published: 2001

Meaning of the Title: It is not The Life of Pi because no particular life is supported. It is about the multiplicity of life and, in the end, the reader is left to choose which of Pi's lives to believe.

Setting: India, Canada, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

Genre: Novel

Protagonist: Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi)

Antagonist: Richard Parker; nature; internal struggle .......