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Life of pi yann6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() and 'Life of Pi' came to me all in one moment basically," he said. “And I am on the top of this rock when a rock came together, it made me remember a novella I had completely forgotten about and its premise of the shipwreck and I thought I could do something here. saying to myself 'I am in my 30s, I have written two books that had gone nowhere, I am screwed'.” "I was on this rock at a hill station near Mumbai looking at life. Speaking at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, the Man Booker prize-winning author called India as the "major influence" for ‘Life of Pi’, and shared the story of how the basic idea of the book dawned upon him when he was standing on a rock at a hill station near Mumbai. After having written two books "without reaching anywhere", famed author Yann Martel was distraught for the lack of a new idea, and then ‘Life of Pi’ came to him "all in one moment" of clarity. ![]()
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