Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi—a 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Praise for Life of Pi:
'Impressive enough to make you, as the old man said, believe in
God…Martel has hit on a marvellous notion and revels in elaborating
it…The story positively sparkles with originality.'
— Scotsman
'Absurd, macabre, unreliable and sad, deeply sensual in its
evoking of smells and sights, the whole trip and the narrator's
insanely curious voice (which evokes and intellectual humming-bird
compelled to sip deep from every possible blossom) suggests Joseph
Conrad and Salman Rushdie hallucinating together over the meaning
of The Old Man and the Sea and Gulliver's Travels.'
— Financial Times
'An extraordinary novel.'
— New York Times
'It is a story so magical, so playful, so harrowing and
astonishing…Every page offers something of tension, humanity,
surprise, or even ecstasy.'
— The Times
