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
Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. The commune of Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is located in Quercy, in the "Causse de Martel". It is watered by two tributaries of the Dordogne, the Sourdoire which borders the communal territory to the southeast, and the Tourmente. Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is adjacent to five other communes. The toponym Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, in Occitan "Sent Daunís", is based on the Christian Hagiotoponyme, Denis de Paris (Dionysius): first Bishop of Paris. "Lès "comes from "Lez", a preposition from the late Latin "latus" meaning next to. Sent Daunís was called first Lenzac variant of Lanzac. During the