Life of Pi A Novel

Pi Patel, a god-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, Alas, the ship sinks, and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they reach land?