by Yann Martel · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070319428
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«L'Histoire de Pi» is the adventure novel by Yann Martel, published by Gallimard in paperback (435 pages, in French).
Piscine Molitor Patel, raised at the Pondicherry zoo, survives a shipwreck and is left adrift on a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a three-hundred-kilo Bengal tiger. For 227 days, Pi sharpens his wits to coexist with the feline and stay alive, in an odyssey about faith, hope, and the nature of reality.
Work originally published in English as «Life of Pi» (2001), winner of the 2002 Booker Prize. The French translation is by Nicole and Émile Martel; number 4291 in the Folio collection.
For French-language readers seeking literary fiction with a philosophical backdrop and a survival adventure.
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.
