Tiger in a Lifeboat, Panther in a Lifeboat: A Furor Over a Novel.

Focuses on the controversy over Canadian author Yann Martel's novel 'Life of Pi,' which won Britain's Man Booker Prize. The book's plot similarities to 'Max and the Cats,' a novel by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar; Martel's admission that he was inspired by Scliar's book; Reactions of Scliar; Comments of Martel, who said he read a review of 'Max and the Cats'; Reference to claims by Brazilian critics and writers that Daphne de Maurier's novel 'Rebecca' was plagiarized from a Brazilian book.