Jai Arjun Singh
This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them
In Javier Marías’ writing, nothing is sacred, no fact safe from doubt, no story left unflipped
While Alice Albinia, the non-fiction writer, refuses to tell a well-worn tale, Albinia the novelist succumbs easily to reductive depictions