Fiction

From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep, he senses the spell cast over the villagers by the Megrimum—the mysterious something that lurks on the mist-wreathed peak of Kneeknock Rise. Everyone shudders in horror—delicious horror—whenever the Megrimum's unearthly wail floats down to the village. Before long, Egan is climbing the Rise to find a practical explanation for those wails.

Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.