Life of Pi

Life of Pi — a novel — winner of the Booker Prize in 2002, written about the journey of no one else, but a little Indian boy and... a Bengal tiger! And not just anywhere, but in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Terrifying, absurd, risky, sad, and extraordinarily sensual in terms of the images and scents reproduced, this journey and its exceedingly strange narrator, resembling an intellectual hummingbird forced to extract nectar from the depths of various blooms, remind of Joseph Conrad's and Salman Rushdie's hallucinations, pondering the semantic content of The Old Man and the Sea and Gulliver's Travels. — The Financial Times This book will restore your faith in the ability of writers to enrich even the most fantastic plot with vivid details of life... Stunning! — The New York Times Life of Pi has caused a true cultural explosion in the global intellectual environment. The fantastic journey of a boy and a Bengal tiger described in the novel resonates with the story The Old Man and the Sea, with Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism and with Beckett's absurdity. The book became not only a bestseller but also a symbol of the literature of the new century, a flag of a new culture. In 2012, the novel was adapted into a film and won four Oscars.