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 to "The Times", where he became editor in 1992. In 2002 he went from "The Times" to a post as editor of the "TLS". Stothard is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and President of the Classical Association. He has written two non-fiction books based on his own experiences: "Thirty Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War" (2003), and "On the Spartacus Road, a Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy" (2010). In preparation for the task as chair of the Booker jury, Stothard read 145 books in seven months, and made sure the other jury members had done