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Title: Elegant, beautifully paced tale of survival
Review: Martell's wonderful book is equally enjoyable as a robust survivor story as it is a metaphor for religious suspension of disbelief. The concise chapters - 21,22 particularly but all of them ultimately - bend this simple tale into a glorious ride across the Pacific. Water imagery abounds, and is perhaps the only slightly forced aspect of the book, but hell, the story involves a kid on a boat at sea, so we'll forgive Martell for this. In fact, there is significance in almost everything: the culinary references, the town of Pondicherry, Pi Patel's own name and its various forms, the stories both real and invented, and the individual animals and their characteristics. This is a deceptively rich text, and you'll probably only realise this at the end, when you'll sit where you are for a few minutes and contemplate your perception of the world, God, truth and fiction. A worthy winner of the Booker, and an author to watch in the future.
