Vintage, Toronto, 2002, reprint.  ISBN 0-676-97377-9.  Trade soft cover, 354 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, gently read with no discernible reading creases; book stores’ label and stamp on first page with small pencil erasure; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Winner of The Man Booker Prize and The Hugh MacLellan Prize For Fiction.  ‘After the sinking of a cargo ship, a single solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the surface of the wild, blue Pacific.  The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, an orang-utan, a zebra with a broken leg, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi Patel, a 16-year-old Indian boy.  The stage is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction in recent years, a novel of such rate and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God.’ (from rear wrap)