Max and the Cats number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for "Life of Pi". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except
Russian Little Booker Prize tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow. The prize award was 4000 GBP. The Public Board of the Little Booker included: 1. Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station) 2. Aleksandr Gavrilov ("Ekslibris" newspaper) 3. Aleksandr Ivanov 4. Dmitri Prigov 5. Natalia Perova ("Glas" magazine) Ilia Kukulin served as consultant. 1992 - Magazines "Solo" (Moscow) and "Vestnik novoi literatury" (Sankt-Peterburg) for the best magazine of literary debuts 1993 - Victor Pelevin ("Sinii fonar") for the year's best