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
Yeo Yann Yann Yeo Yann Yann Yeo Yann Yann (; born 20 February 1977) is a Malaysian actress based in Singapore. She has worked in theatre, television, and film; recent performances include "Singapore Dreaming" (as Mei), Thunderstorm 雷雨 (as Fan Yi 蘩漪) and a movie in August 2007, "881". Besides acting, Yann Yann also hosts bilingual events and performs for corporate skits and projects. She is also a pioneer-graduate of Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), formerly known as the Theatre Training and Research Programme (TTRP). Yeo cites her acting mentor (the late theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun) as a big part in her career.