Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
In Tim Winton's comically eccentric novel, set in an Australian fishing village, Jim Buckridge and his girlfriend Georgie begin to have problems when former rocker Luther Fox comes to town.
Barnes's eighth novel is a futuristic dystopian fantasy in which a corrupt businessman seeks to recreate scenes from English history as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. Eventually, the recreations take the place of the real England.
V. S. Naipaul's powerful work of disenfranchisement, postcolonial immorality, and human cruelty won the Booker Prize in 1971. The book consists of three thematically linked short stories, plus a prologue and epilogue of travel writing by the narrator. The book's titular tale, "In A Free State," invo ...
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