Life of Pi By Yann Martel

Winner of the Booker Prize 2002. Piscine Molitor Patel otherwise known as Pi lives in Pondicherry where his father runs and owns the city s zoo. When he is sixteen his parents decide to emigrate to Canada taking their large family with them but tragedy strikes when the cargo ship carrying them sinks during a terrible storm. One solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. In it are five survivors: Pi a hyena a zebra (with a broken leg) a female orangutan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of 2002.