
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
1988

Yann Martel · 2001
326 pages
After a shipwreck, a teenage boy shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. For months he struggles to survive at sea while holding on to his beliefs and his story. A fable about faith, storytelling and the versions of events we choose to believe.
Survival, Nautical Adventure, Unreliable Narrator, Magical Realism, Philosophical