Life of Pi Yan, 'Life of Pi' is told from two alternating points of view, the main character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is the "visiting writer" (Martel 101) interviewing Pi many years after the tiger in the boat story. This technique of the intrusive narrator adds the documentary realism to the book, setting up, like a musical counter-point, the myth-making, unreliable narrator, Pi. The reader is left to ponder at the end whether Pi's story is an allegory of another set of parallel events. The novel is a work of fiction set in the summer of 1977 that
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