Both stories have at their core powerful coming-of-age narratives, which challenge conventions of historical time and gender roles.
Sometimes they connect to form narratives, which are dreams, but mostly they just float across the mind's eye.
The first-person narratives, which force the reader closer to the terror the women are feeling, are brilliantly handled.
"I could build a bridge in between myself and my country … re-interpreting historical narratives which I've never witnessed but only imagined".
The sprawling, sustained narratives which were once the preserve of comics, TV dramas and online video games would at last make it into cinemas.
India not only lives, as the cliché goes, in several centuries at once; it is also a land of multiple narratives, which continuously and often painfully overlap.
My mind was spinning out these very full, detailed and dark narratives, which I was simultaneously watching happen from another, walled off perch in my brain.
Many of the book's other narratives, which follow families once left out of the health-care system and now inside, strengthen this claim.
Commonwealth is another of her multilayered narratives, which follows two families – over the course of a few decades – that are united by a single moment of infidelity.
Carrère has become celebrated for his propulsive, original, free-ranging narratives, which frequently mix memoir, biography, and fiction in rather blithely measured proportions.
"I could build a bridge in between myself and my country... re-interpreting historical narratives which I've never witnessed but only imagined".
