Francesco Nicoletti wrote: >This thread has inspired me to three further questions. Given our >esteemed author's tendency to work through an unreliable narrator, with >his or own agenda, is there such a narrator for Brokedown Palace ? Who >would it be ? What is their agenda ? > My guess is that there is no such narrator. Steve wanted to do a political allegory and he set it in a world we are familiar with - giving us some more insights into that world - but the purpose of the novel is very different from the purpose of other books we have read set in that world. Again - this is my guess only.