319 pages
English language
Published Dec. 14, 2001 by Harcourt.
3 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Teenage boys -- Fiction.
- Ocean travel -- Fiction.
- Zoo animals -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Tigers -- Fiction.
- Pacific Ocean -- Fiction.