Strange storytellers
When it comes to narrators, these authors don’t discriminate.
Their storytellers can be inanimate objects, animals, 5-year-olds, dead, or undead.
We’ve rounded up the novels, short stories, and metafiction with out-of-the-ordinary narrators.
Little, Brown and Company (2); Knopf (2); Penguin Random House
As she attempts to escape and reunite with her young child, she must also battle her drug addiction.
In fact, one of the narrators of the book is the drug itself, crack cocaine.
Nutshell, Ian McEwan
Narrator: An unborn child
In a nutshell (ha!)
Little, Brown and Company
it’sHamlet, but told from the perspective of a surprisingly competent unborn child.
The main bunny, Fiver, serves as the book’s narrator.
Mister B.
Knopf Books for Young Readers
This magical realism novel, translated from Portuguese, is told by a man reincarnated as a gecko.
She narrates her family’s struggle to cope from her isolated, personal heaven.
Azaro narrates as he interacts withand is torn betweenthe real world and the spiritual world.
Penguin Random House
Enzo is a dog.
What a good boy!
With her magical ability to read the memories of inanimate objects, she accesses its immense library of information.
Little, Brown and Company
There, he encounters a Haitian refugee and her family who have traveled as far for the same reason.
This portrait of globalization is conveyed by a Haitian voodoo spirit narrator.
Perhaps a littletooon the nose.
Knopf
Scribner
Vintage/Ebury
Harper Perennial
Viking Books
Little, Brown and Company
Harper Perennial
Open Road Media
HarperCollins
Arcadia Books
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
Carcanet Press Ltd.
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