Bir yük gemisinin trajik şekilde batmasının ardından, bir filika uçsuz bucaksız, vahşi Pasifik Okyanusu'nun ortasında yapayalnız kalır. Sandalın, hayatta kalmayı başarabilen mürettebatı bir sırtlan, kırık bacaklı bir zebra, bir orangutan, Richard Parker adında üç yüz kiloluk bir Bengal kaplanı ve Pi adlı 16 yaşında Hintli bir çocuktan oluşmaktadır. Ve roman asıl bundan sonra başlar. Pi'nin açlık, susuzluk, soğuk, sıcak ve en önemlisi korkuyla mücadele ettiği günler boyunca gösterdiği direnç ve inanç okunmaya değer çünkü.
Yann Martel is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. His first language is French, but he writes in English.