Source: www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 9, 2009: WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia. In an interview with Reuters, Obama called it a “wonderful book” that was enthralling his daughter. “There are whole chapters that really have to do with Hinduism, Christianity. There is a lot of philosophical stuff in there, but for some reason she (Malia) is hanging in there,” he said.
The prize-winning book by Yann Martel centers on the journey of Pi Patel, who is cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan after a ship carrying him and his family from India to Canada sinks.