Yann Martel · 2001 · sea

Yann Martel's 2001 novel. After his family's zoo ship founders in the Pacific, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel survives 227 days adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, drifting from Pondicherry across the ocean to the Mexican coast. Rescued at last, and disbelieved, he offers a second, harder story - and asks which one you would rather be true.

1. 1
   Pondicherry

   Pi's family sells their zoo and boards a freighter bound for Canada.

2. 2
   Tomatlán, Mexico

   After 227 days adrift with a tiger, Pi washes ashore in Mexico.

3. 3
   Toronto

   Rescued and nursed back to health, Pi settles at last in Canada, the country his family had set out for, where years later he tells his impossible story.