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
The Element of Water Book of the Year award. The Element of Water The Element of Water is a 2001 novel by Welsh author Stevie Davies. Published by The Women's Press, it was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, and for the Orange Women's Prize for Fiction in 2002; it won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002. The twin narratives of "The Element of Water" take place in 1945 and 1958. Paul Dahl and Michael Quantz grew up together in pre-war Germany. During their youth they were inseparable, but as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, they find they