~ Trade Paperback, Movie Tie-In Cover
~ Winner of the Man Booker Prize - 2002, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction - 2001, Exclusive Books Boeke Prize - 2003, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction - 2003, and the German Book Prize for Fiction - 2004
A fantasy adventure novel, Life of Pi follows protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
"Life of Pie is a terrific book. It's fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore." -- Margaret Atwood