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Champion of the 2002 Man Booker Award for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual young man. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal tendencies and a fervent love of stories and procedures not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is 16, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo dispatch with their zoo animals destined for new homes. The dispatch sinks. Pi finds himself by itself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days and nights lost at sea. If they finally reach the coastline of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, to never be seen again. JAPAN regulators who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his report and press him to tell them "the truth". After time of coercion, Pi tells a second report, a story much less fantastical, a lot more normal - but could it be more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of success that explores the redemptive electricity of storytelling and the transformative dynamics of fiction. It's a tale, as one figure puts it, to make you believe in God. Cover design by Vaugh Andrews. Cover illustration by Andy Bridge.
