Schiffbruch mit Tiger

yann martel manfred allié

Schiffbruch mit Tiger? Diese Geschichte würden Sie nicht glauben? Kein Wunder. Fantastisch. Verwegen. Atemberaubend. Wahnsinnig komisch. Eine Geschichte, die Sie an Gott glauben lässt.
Pi Patel, der Sohn eines indischen Zoobesitzers und praktizierender Hindu, Christ und Muslim erleidet mit einer Hyäne, einem Orang-Utan, einem verletzten Zebra und einem 450 Pfund schweren bengalischen Tiger namens Richard Parker Schiffbruch. Bald hat der Tiger alle erledigt - alle, außer Pi. Alleine treiben sie in einem Rettungsboot auf dem Ozean.
Eine wundersame, abenteuerliche Odyssee beginnt.

Genres fictionfantasyclassicsbook clubadventuremagical realismnovelsliteraturephilosophyliterary fiction

381 pages, Hardcover

First published September 11,2001

Literary awards

booker prize, bollinger everyman wodehouse prize, exclusive books boeke prize, deutscher buchpreis (german book prize), governor generals literary awards / prix littéraires du gouverneur général, lincoln award, cbc canada reads, luisterboek award, qwf (quebec writers federation) award, asian/pacific american award for literature,

Places

pacific ocean, pondicherry, toronto ontario, tomatlan,

This edition

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
Published: February 1, 2003 by S. Fischer
ISBN: 9783100478252
ASIN: 3100478258
Language: German

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About the author

yann martel

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 directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. His first language is French, but he writes in English.