In a shortlist that seems to reject conventional realism and celebrate precarious and unstable narratives, our half-dozen to watch is completed by Ali Smith's Autumn and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West.
But while the suspense is minimal in this first-person account of an underachieving small-town lawyer who fears for the sanity of his gifted but unstable sister, the narrative is sustained by its thematic richness and the subtlety of its psychological portraits of tormented characters.
Drawing from Science and Technology Studies, recent work on the hydrosocial cycle, visual geography, and art history, we explore these waterworks' technologies as a novel but unstable confluence of objects, narratives, people, and places.
Driven by the beauty, complexity, and the apparent randomness of such a constant flux of data, Quévillon offers up a strong poetic and technological narrative depicting an unstable society with an uncertain future.
Pain narratives were sometimes unstable and changing, and symptoms outside the canon were investigated less frequently.
The narrative is confusing and unstable, but the prose, which meanders through the crevasses of a complicated mind, takes off and reads like poetry.
Its narrative voice is too unstable; it pretends to show everybody's point of view, but it is subtly biased in favor of Philip's outlook.
The huge emotional lurch after the unusually breezy first appearance of the idée fixe immediately defined the psychological narrative as one of unstable desire for an unavailable object rather than one of consummation and betrayal.
When deep space is so often the backdrop for combat missions or romance options, the distractedly terrified, lonely, whimsically unstable meanderings of Out There's narrative are refreshing.
The Coens find the unanswered questions, the points of self-contradiction, and unstable logic that can bring the entire narrative house of cards down.
