by Yann Martel · Canongate Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841953922
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«Life of Pi» is the adventure and survival novel by Yann Martel, published by Canongate Books Ltd in paperback (348 pages, in English).
A cargo ship sinks in the Pacific and Pi, a sixteen-year-old boy, is left adrift in a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, a female orangutan and a Bengal tiger. The story, told as a fable, alternates the struggle to survive with questions about faith, hope and human nature.
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, the work was originally published in 2001 and this edition is from 2003.
Aimed at readers of literary and adventure fiction, and at book clubs interested in novels with a philosophical 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.
