Life of Pi, the 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel, is 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 utterly wonderful narrator (like an intellectual hummingbird forced to extract nectar from the depths of a wide variety of inflorescences) recall a hallucinosis of Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie guessing at the meaning 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 plots with life's details... Amazing!' — The New York Times

'Life of Pi' caused a veritable cultural explosion in the global intellectual community. The fantastical journey of a young man and a Bengal tiger, described in the novel, echoes 'The Old Man and the Sea,' the magical realism of Márquez, and the absurdity of Beckett. The book became not only a bestseller but also a symbol of the literature of the new century, a flag for a new culture.

In 2012, the novel was adapted into a film and won four Oscars.