5/19/2023 0 Comments Life of pi yann martel book![]() Borrowing the same premise caused some tension with Scliar after ![]() Martel has also admitted that he was inspired by the premise of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar’s novella Max and the Cats (1981), about a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a jaguar. Searching for a “capital ‘S’” story, he was inspired by the abundance of animals and religion he encountered. In an interview with PBS, Martel shared that “the idea of a religious boy in a lifeboat with a wild animal struck me as a perfect metaphor for the human condition.” While on a trip in India, (Edinburgh’s Canongate published the first UK edition in 2002). ![]() It was rejected by at least five London-based publishing houses before the Canadian publisher Knopf took a chance on it ![]()
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