by Yann Martel · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070622269
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«L'Histoire de Pi» is the adventure novel by Yann Martel, in a 480-page French paperback edition, from the Folio Junior collection.
After the sinking of the cargo ship carrying his family and the animals of the Pondicherry zoo to Canada, young Pi is left adrift in a lifeboat. His only companion is a Bengal tiger, and for 227 days he must coexist with the feline, dealing with hunger, fear, and sharks.
Winner of the 2002 Booker Prize, it was originally published as Life of Pi in 2001; this French edition is from 2008.
For readers of contemporary and adventure fiction, and for book clubs interested in survival stories.
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.
