This is an incredible book which is impossible to put down once you get going. As any other great adventure book it goes well beyond the story itself. It has a message which can be understood at different levels by different readers. At times it resembles a fable, at times a hallucination and at times just breezy.
The core part of the book describes Pi's journey across the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat with an injured Zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. Eventually their numbers are reduced to two - Pi and the tiger (the rest of the book is a 227 page ordeal for survival). The best part of the book is the choice of an alternate ending, which challenges and leaves you in contemplation.
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in September 2001.
The core part of the book describes Pi's journey across the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat with an injured Zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. Eventually their numbers are reduced to two - Pi and the tiger (the rest of the book is a 227 page ordeal for survival). The best part of the book is the choice of an alternate ending, which challenges and leaves you in contemplation.
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in September 2001.
