Gabriele Kempf-Allié Livres

A great of twentieth century literature, now known to generations for A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.

Le directeur du zoo de Pondichéry avait bien prévenu son fils Pi : il ne faut jamais se rapprocher des fauves ! Mais il n'avait pas prévu que le cargo conduisant la famille et la ménagerie au Canada sombrerait, laissant Pi seul sur un canot de sauvetage. Enfin, presque seul : un tigre de Bengale est caché dans la chaloupe ! Durant 227 jours, le jeune garçon va tenter d'oublier sa faim, sa peur et les requins pour l'apprivoiser…

Teenage meat-packer Delia Chapman's claim that she has encountered a group of aliens is at first considered temporary insanity because of the stresses of her job. For how else can her story, which gains her instand tabloid fame and the envy of her catty friends, be explained? Things get stranger when Delia realizes she's pregnant, but remembers little more of her supernatural experience than lights and noise. When two of Delia's friends also disclose their pregnancies and likewise blame the spacemen, the town of Opunake begins to buzz with reporters.