Waarom leven we?

Waar komen we vandaan?

Staan alle belangrijke gebeurtenissen in het leven vast?

Ja, alles staat vast. Alle belangrijke gebeurtenissen staan vast, zeker in mijn leven.

Ik weet alles wat er ging en gaat gebeuren van te voren, soms al héél veel jaren van te voren. Ik weet alleen niet Waar en Wanneer het gebeurt. Space en Time staan niet vast.

‘All heroes are afraid,’ she said. ‘There can’t be any bravery without fear. The most daring thing you can do is face your fears and go on anyway. But sometimes it’s better to heed your fears. No one can tell beforehand what the outcome of your choices will be. No one can tell what the limits of another person’s courage are. What do yóu think you should do?’

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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orang...