The latest addition to my website is Pat Gray‘s Narrator. The narrator is called, yes, Mr (Basil) Narrator. He is in (a fictitious) Morocco working for a British engineering firm and trying to get a project fior a pump-house approved which had been on track but now is not. This seemingly requires getting to the all -powerful Zoboti but that is easier said than done and much of the novel is about his struggle (and the struggles of others) to work ihs way through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Morocco. He is also dealing with other issues such as a complicated sexual relationship and an Irish room-mate writing a strange novel which may well feature Basil and his sex life. Gray uses humour and surrealism to show the frustration of Basil but also armies of ordinary citizens trying to deal with a complicated and ever-changing bureaucracy.