Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, tells the extraordinary story of Piscine "Pi" Patel, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy who survives a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean. Stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days, Pi shares his fragile vessel with a fearsome Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, along with a hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan. Facing starvation, storms, and isolation, Pi relies on his faith, intelligence, and willpower to survive. The novel blends adventure, spirituality, and magical realism, exploring themes of religion, storytelling, and the blurred line between truth and fiction. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2002.
