Yann Martel Books

This sits somewhere between a YA novel and an adult one, but has one of the best closing lines of any book I know: ‘Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.’ It’s a clever book that functions on many levels – as an animal tale or a story of horrific struggle to survive a shipwreck. Pi (the narrator) gives us – and the insurers in the book – the choice as to which interpretation they wish to choose. Was the tiger real or was it what Pi became in order to survive…?