We’re All Storytellers Llosa, Mario Vargas (1989). The Storyteller. Helen Lane (trans.) New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux An unnamed first-person narrator, traveling in Florence, tells two stories. One is about his lifelong fascination with the pre-industrial, unacculturated tribes of the Amazon … Continue reading
Glimpse Of Another World Silko, Leslie Marmon (1977). Ceremony. New York: Viking. Hailed as a masterpiece of Native American literature, this novel has endured over decades and is still a good read. In part that is because the situation of … Continue reading
Pouty Financial Analyst Goes Home Hamid, Mohsin (2007). The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New York: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Most novels are written in either third-person or first-person voice Second-person is rare, and there is a good reason for that: it’s clunky. Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist is … Continue reading