One boy; one boat; one tiger. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship; a 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 and best-loved works of fiction in recent years