by Yann Martel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596156658
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«Schiffbruch mit Tiger» is the novel by Yann Martel, published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (384 pages, in German).
Pi Patel, son of a zoo owner in India and practitioner of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, is shipwrecked and ends up on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra, and a tiger named Richard Parker. Only he and the tiger survive: an ocean odyssey that becomes a parable about faith and the relationship between humans and animals.
«Schiffbruch mit Tiger», originally published as «Life of Pi» in 2001, won the Booker Prize 2002. The German translation is by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié.
For readers of adventure and literary fiction interested in survival stories with a philosophical and religious 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.
