319 pages
English language
Published June 4, 2002 by Canongate.
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
Another "meh" for me. The characters act so unbelievably in the face if so-called terrifying ghosts and a debilitating haunting that it is hard to take anything seriously. I wish the original "suffering" was covered more.
This is a charming and harrowing tale of survival at sea. The meta-narrator suggests it is a story which will make you believe in God which turns out to be a less clever framing device than it wants to be but still and interesting one.
This book reminds me so much of [b:The Alchemist|865|The Alchemist|Paulo Coelho|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1287827991s/865.jpg|4835472] in the sense it was very basic and it tries to talk about religion in and philosophical but turns out to be incredibly overrated. I know a lot of people like both book but I never connected with either, I was expecting a lot more from this but I was left hanging. It’s interesting to see books like this that seem to be either well loved or well hated but not much in the middle. This book is just a story about a kid trying every religion out and then get trapped on the boat with some animals, nothing really exciting or interesting happens.
