

Suffice to say author Yann Martel had a metaphysical agenda in mind. It's written in three parts, and I spent most of Part Three saying, 'Aww, no way!' But there will be no spoilers because this is one book whose crux you can't un-remember. Castaway boy survives for seven months in a lifeboat on the Pacific Ocean with a full grown Bengal tiger for company. Wow, it only seems fair that a book that blew me out of the water should be set on the ocean.

He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.
