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
Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book Award for his novel "Mister Pip". The novel is set during the Bougainville Civil War of the early 1990s in Papua New Guinea. The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. Jones was the 2007 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author. His novel "Mister Pip" won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker. Jones was born in Lower Hutt in 1955, and attended Hutt Valley High School and