by Yann Martel · Canongate Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781841952451
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«Life of Pi» is the adventure and literary fiction novel by Yann Martel, published by Canongate Books in hardback (320 pages, in English).
The novel follows Pi, a young Indian man who takes an interest in Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. When the cargo ship he is traveling on sinks, he is left on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker; his survival depends on coming to terms with the tiger.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2002; originally published in 2001 and in this edition in May 2002.
For the general public, especially reading clubs, interested in survival stories with a spiritual backdrop.
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.
