philosophical novel that mainly takes shape as a telepathic socratic dialogue between a sentient gorilla professor named Ishmael, and an unnamed narrator human student. the book explores things like the nature of story, myth, culture, man’s relation to other animals, language, and the subject Ishmael says he teaches: “captivity.”
If you like Life of Pi, (another one of my favorites, which shows up as a related rec for this ask), you ought to read Ishmael.
