少年Pi的奇幻漂流

2012年改編3D立體電影，由華人導演李安執導，全球票房超過6億美元

發生船難的印度少年Pi，與大孟加拉虎理查.帕克一同乘著救難小艇，在海上漂流。狹小的船上，每天都是一場場生命的搏鬥，除了活下去的意志和現實外，還要與凶狠的孟加拉虎對峙，而瞬息萬變的海相，也讓少年吃盡苦頭。楊.馬泰爾以魔幻的風格，描述Pi的海上漂流。隨著時間過去，少年所見似乎越來越不真實，現實和夢境的界線也越來越模糊… …。
與其說少年面對的是一頭令人恐懼的猛獸，不如說他面對的是真實的人性，在寂茫的大海上，孤身一人面對一望無際的空間，面對大自然的殘忍和暴烈，自然逼引出人性最脆弱、最恐怖、最不可知的一面。故事中各種動物間冷血的、弱肉強食的兇殘冷酷，與船難發生時，人們的行為如出一轍；而令人恐懼的老虎理查.帕克，則像少年心中的另一面相，這段海上的苦難，最艱難的，不是外在的困境，而是人得毫無遮蔽，赤裸裸地去面對和審視自己最真實的內心。

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?