Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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,...

'Las altas montañas de Portugal' es una novela de investigación y de fantasmas, y también una fábula contemporánea que ofrece una exploración inquietante sobre el amor y la pérdida. Llena de ternura, humor y grandes sorpresas, lleva al lector en un viaje por carretera a través de Portugal y a lo largo del último siglo y medio de historia. Un viaje que a la postre recorrerá el alma humana. En Lisboa, en 1904, un joven llamado Tomás descubre...

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.