a favourite narrative book

[cacian]

do you enjoy reading narrative stories and do you have a personal favourite?

[Marcus1]

To listen to your grandmother narrate a story passed on from generation to generation, you stare at her eyes listen to her words, her figure traced by the reflected light by the warm fireplace just before bedtime, you don't question whether or not the story is true, you just listen. Just as how one doesn't think when he dances, or think when he is praying, so too one shall listen to the words which take leave from books without questioning. Books may never be able to replicate the traditional forms of oral-storytelling, but what they do share is same need to tell stories.

My favourite books which stay faithful to the lost art of storytelling:

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter by J Nozipo Maraire
The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories by Lu Xun
Palm-of-the-hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Mulata by Miguel Angel Asturias

[Lykren]

You have the ability to stop thinking?

Anyways, favorite stories:

Anna Karenina
King Lear
Macbeth
Autobiography of Red (a weird story but a story)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
Jin Ping Mei (which does end up having a beginning and end)