I feel in love with it and felt involved in the world of those rhythms and narratives gave me.
Sentimental, humorous, occasionally sardonic, the narratives give an intimate and refreshing glimpse of figures like the poet (and draftsman) Jean Cocteau and the bristly photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Her choice of narratives gives us jinn and peris (genies and fairies), magicians, speaking talismans and the archetypal figure of Aladdin, master of illusions, of flights and of vanishing acts.
Tash Aw juggles these varied lives with type font changes, flashbacks and parallel narratives, giving the story a disjointed feel rather like that of the turbulent society in which these disparate characters must find their way.
Those old narratives give black lives less value than white ones, and it's possible to draw a fairly direct line from that ingrained norm to the racial discrepancy in police shooting victims.
The required historical narratives give an account of the ancestral history of living organisms based on a detailed description of the particular circumstances in which ancestors of today's organisms evolved.
It is Hunter who is the monster, able to live only among dead things, his narrative given in a hungry present tense.
The Giant is a humane and humorous lover of stories, his narrative given in a rueful past tense of fable or fairytale.
Reporting mirrored the shifting narrative given by the Russian defence ministry, which initially said the convoy was not hit by an airstrike or shelling, but rather "caught fire", suggesting that rebels were to blame.
However, the new technology breeds questions on how best to develop a narrative, given the immersive quality of virtual reality as a medium.
