"Never use epigraphs, they kill the mystery in the work!" (Adli) The above piece of epigraphic genius prefaces Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book – though we later learn that it's lifted from the writings ...
It was 1997: The God of Small Things was the novel of the moment. Among my book-loving friends, I was the last standing individual to ignore Arundhati Roy’s fashionable debut. I have a twin sister.