![]() ![]() This novel is solid prose poetry and literary experimentation. Once an Edek sees you, you will never be unseen. Why didn’t he just run, or hide, you ask? Because he fell under the view of a Edek, creatures who need a human handler to function in our societies. But drafted he got, and off he went to a war he knew nothing about in a place he never wanted to go. ![]() He’s a student, he shouldn’t ever have been drafted. They say you might change your mind about that when the country is invaded and your people are suffering wrong, but for me this is all just more horror, more army-horror.” As he says on the first page of the novel: Neither does Low, the protagonist of The Narrator. I don’t gravitate towards military fiction. ![]() It’s the atmospheric beauty of Sofia Samatar’s A Stanger in Olondria, combined with the dense verbal wordplay and visual magic of China Mieville’s Embassytown,and gilded with the lyrical poetry of a Catherynne Valente, Michael Cisco’s The Narrator is a very special book for a long list of reasons. Where I got it: received free e-book, and then purchased a new print copy ![]()
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