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
2012 Man Booker Prize careers of her two brothers. As Busner's experiment shows unexpected consequences, it appears the encephalitic patients' condition – with their endless repetition of mechanical movements – is little more than a manifestation of the condition of 20th century man. Will Self's career has seen the publication of a great number of works of fiction and non-fiction alike, yet "Umbrella" is the first novel for which he has been shortlisted for a Booker Prize. The novel has been compared to James Joyce's "Ulysses" because of its stream of consciousness literary style. Self, however, insisted that the formalism was "always of secondary