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
Russian Little Booker Prize tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow. The prize award was 4000 GBP. The Public Board of the Little Booker included: 1. Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station) 2. Aleksandr Gavrilov ("Ekslibris" newspaper) 3. Aleksandr Ivanov 4. Dmitri Prigov 5. Natalia Perova ("Glas" magazine) Ilia Kukulin served as consultant. 1992 - Magazines "Solo" (Moscow) and "Vestnik novoi literatury" (Sankt-Peterburg) for the best magazine of literary debuts 1993 - Victor Pelevin ("Sinii fonar") for the year's best