Life of Pi

"Life of Pi" is a 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel about the journey of none other than a small Indian boy and... a Bengal tiger! And not just anywhere, but in a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! "Eerie, absurd, risky, sad and extraordinarily sensual in the images and smells it produces, this journey and its incredibly strange narrator (like an intellectual hummingbird forced to extract nectar from the depths of various inflorescences) recall the hallucination of Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie, guessing at the semantic content of The Old Man and the Sea and Gulliver." - The Financial Times "This book will restore your faith in the ability of writers to saturate even the most fantastic plot with life details... Amazing!" — The New York Times“Life of Pi” caused a real cultural explosion in the world intellectual environment. The fantastic journey of a young man and a Bengal tiger, described in the novel, echoes the story “The Old Man and the Sea”, with the magical realism of Marquez and the absurdity of Beckett. The book became not only a bestseller, but also a symbol of the literature of the new century, the flag of a new culture. In 2012, the novel was filmed and received four Oscars.