Mr Narrator

Pat Gray's Kafkaesque fantasy presents a bureaucratic landscape which is both sinister and comic. Mr Narrator leads an obscure neo-colonial existence in Goughly, where he is an export agent for a firm of Rotherham engineers and shares a flat and a mistress with Murphy, a post-modernist writer. An upset to one of his business deals plunges him into a bizarre cross-desert journey to the capital, where, social, political and sexual humiliation descend on him in ever increasing number. Pat Gray's novel portrays with documentary accuracy a Morocco which has never existed but one which has now been colonised by surrealism.

Pat Gray was born in Belfast. Between 1979 and 1981 he lived and worked in Morocco as a teacher. Since then he has worked extensively in Eastern Europe, but now lives in London. He is the author of five novels: Mr Narrator (1989/2023), The Political Map of the Heart (2001), The Cat(1997/2015), Dirty Old Tricks (2020) and The Redemption Cut(2022).