by Yann Martel · Editorial Presença · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722344876
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«A Vida de Pi» is the adventure novel by Yann Martel, published in 2012 by Editorial Presença (321 pages, in Portuguese).
Pi Patel, son of the manager of a zoo in Pondicherry, travels with his family to North America on a cargo ship together with the zoo animals. After the shipwreck, he is left adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker; the coexistence with the tiger becomes a struggle for survival in which reality and faith intertwine.
Originally published as «Life of Pi», it won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. This Portuguese edition bears the subtitle «A viagem duma vida».
Recommended in Portugal's Plano Nacional de Leitura for Year 8, it is an adventure and survival novel with a reflective undertone.
Yann Martel, is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
