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conversations.value: The Jewel in the Crown (TV series): The serial opens in the 1940s in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore, against the backdrop of the last years of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.\nHari Kumar (Art Malik) is a young Indian man who was educated at \'Chillingborough\', a British public school (the British term for an elite private school); he identifies as English rather than Indian.\nThe bankruptcy of his father, a formerly successful businessman, forces him to return to India to live with his aunt.\nWorking as a journalist, Kumar sees that his position is lower in India, where he is discriminated against by many British colonists and held in some suspicion by Indian independence activists.\nHe becomes involved with a British woman, Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge), who does not share the prejudices of most of her people.\nOne night, after Hari and Daphne make love in the public Bibighar Gardens, at the same time that violent anti-British demonstrations are taking place elsewhere in the city, the couple are attacked by a group of unknown Indian men.\nHari is beaten and Daphne is raped showing that not only the British opposed relationships across ethnic boundaries.\nThe local Indian Police superintendent is Ronald Merrick (Tim Pigott-Smith), a young Englishman who is intelligent, hardworking, and from a lower-class background.\nHe had made advances to Daphne during her first months in India and been politely but firmly rebuffed.\nHe arrests Hari for her rape, holding him in the local jail, where he beats and sexually humiliates him.\nMerrick resents Hari\'s privileged education and he resents Daphne\'s preferring the young Indian to him.\nBecause Daphne refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the police do not prosecute Hari for rape.\nBut Merrick arrests Kumar and a group of young, educated Indians, sending them to prison for detention without trial under the security regulations adopted to deal with suppressing the Indian independence movement.\nWord that Hari was tortured causes outrage in the Indian community.\nMerrick is transferred from Mayapore to a smaller and less important town in the province.\nDaphne learns she is pregnant.\nShe chooses to believe the father is Hari, though she can\'t know whether it is he or one of the rapists who is the father.\nShe dies in childbirth.\nThe mixed-race child, a girl, is taken in by Daphne\'s aunt, Lady Manners, widow of a former provincial governor.\nWhile Lady Manners takes the infant to the resort area of Srinagar, she meets Sarah Layton, a young British woman on vacation with her mother and her sister Susan.\nSarah and Susan\'s father is the colonel of the Indian Army regiment in Pankot, a hill station near Mayapore.\nHe is being held as a prisoner of war in Germany, where his unit was captured.\nSusan and their mother prefer to stay away from Lady Manners due to the scandal of her great-niece\'s illegitimate birth, but Sarah pays a call on Lady Manners and the two women become friendly.\nSarah and her family soon encounter Merrick, who has left the police and procured a commission in the Indian Army.\nTeddie Bingham (Nicholas Farrell), an Indian Army officer and the fiancé of Sarah\'s sister Susan, is stationed in the nearby princely state of Mirat; Merrick, also assigned there, happens to share quarters with him.\nBecause the unit is soon to leave for the border with Burma, Teddie and Susan have to marry in Mirat.\nWhen Teddie\'s best man for the ceremony becomes ill, he asks Merrick to step in.\nMerrick, seeing a relationship with the upper-class Teddie and the Laytons as a means to career advancement, is pleased to help.\nWhile Merrick and Teddie are driving to the ceremony a stone is thrown at their car, slightly injuring Teddie.\nMerrick understands that he was the target of the attack, as this is one of a series of incidents suggesting he is being harassed because of his treatment of Kumar and the other suspects in the Manners case in Mayapore.\nSoon after the wedding Teddie and Merrick leave for the Burma front with their unit.\nTeddie is soon killed in an ambush by soldiers of the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army (INA).\nMerrick is badly wounded trying to get Teddie to safety and is evacuated to a hospital in Calcutta.\nWhen Sarah visits him (at Susan\'s request) to thank him, she learns that his arm is to be amputated and that his face will be permanently disfigured by burn scars.\nMerrick reveals to Sarah that Teddie was ambushed because of him.\nTeddie had left their unit to try to persuade two Indian soldiers of his regiment, who had been captured by the Japanese and joined the INA, to surrender and come in.\nMerrick believes Teddie took this risk to prove to him that the Indian soldiers, even after becoming turncoats, would resume their loyalty to the British if given the chance.\nFaced with losing his arm and being left permanently disfigured, Merrick\'s hostility against Indians has increased.\nLady Manners presses to gain a formal inquiry into the arrest and detention of Hari Kumar.\nIt is conducted by Nigel Rowan (Nicholas Le Prevost) an aide to the governor of the province.\nOnly during the interview does Hari learn that Daphne is dead.\nAfter Rowan establishes that Hari was tortured by Merrick and there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by him, he arranges the young man\'s release from prison.\nNo action is taken against Merrick, however.\nAfter his convalescence, Merrick is promoted and assigned to intelligence activities concerning the INA and Indian soldiers who collaborated with the enemy.\nHe comes across the Laytons again in Bombay, where Sarah is reunited with her father, Colonel Layton, just released from a German POW camp following Germany\'s surrender.\nMerrick is there to interrogate an Indian soldier who had served under Colonel Layton and assisted the Germans after Layton\'s unit was captured, and who has been deported to India.\nMerrick gains assistance from Sergeant Guy Perron (Charles Dance), a young Cambridge graduate and Indian history scholar, who was serving with an Intelligence Corps Field Security unit; he speaks fluent Urdu and is asked to observe the interrogation.\nMerrick learns that Perron also attended Chillingborough, and happened to know Hari Kumar when they were students.\nAfter the interrogation, Perron runs into Merrick and Sarah Layton by chance at a party.\nHe accompanies them to the apartment of Layton\'s aunt, where Sarah and her father are staying temporarily.\nSarah and Perron are attracted to each other.\nMerrick decides to have Perron assigned to assist him in further investigations of Indian soldiers who became collaborators.\nPerron and Sarah both find Merrick distasteful, but Perron has no choice but to work with him.\nAfter the death of her husband Teddie and the difficult birth of their son, the young widow Susan Layton Bingham suffers a mental breakdown and is treated in a hospital in Pankot.\nWhen Merrick returns to the Pankot area while working on his inquiry into collaborators, he starts to court Susan and ultimately marries her.\nPerron later learns that Merrick blackmailed a young British hospital clerk into giving him access to Susan\'s medical records, apparently to learn about her mental state and use this material to persuade her to marry him.\nHer sister Sarah dislikes Merrick and is opposed to the marriage, but she is unable to stop it.\nWith the surrender of Japan in 1945, the war in the East is ended, and the days of British rule in India are clearly numbered.\nPerron arranges a quick exit from the Army and returns to Cambridge and his academic career.\nDue to his imminent departure, he and Sarah must suspend their relationship.\nThe Layton parents plan to return to England.\nMerrick intends to stay on, having gotten a contract from the government of Mirat to reorganize their police force.\nIn 1947, with the transition to Indian independence under way, Perron returns to India as an historian to observe the process.\nVisiting Mirat at the invitation of its Chief Minister, Count Bronowsky, whom he met briefly on his last trip to Bombay, Perron learns that Merrick has died, apparently as a result of a riding accident.\nThe situation in Mirat is tense due to conflict between Hindus and Muslims related to independence.\nBronowsky tells Perron the real story behind Merrick\'s death.\nHe relates that Merrick died in the course of a sexual rendezvous with a young Indian man who was probably employed by independent activists and who was believed to have let in an assassin who killed Merrick.\nThe authorities cover up the details of Merrick\'s death, fearing reprisals from the Indians in this time of political uncertainty regarding British departure.\nThe two discuss their view that, in leaving India, the British are opening up "Pandora\'s Box," releasing the ancient competition for power between the Hindus and Muslims, who had earlier conquered and ruled the country.\nSome confrontations had been restrained by the power of the British as rulers.\nSarah, Susan and their aunt attend Merrick\'s funeral in Mirat.\nPerron decides to accompany them on the train back to Pankot.\nJoining them is Ahmed Kasim, the educated son of a prominent Muslim politician who has been working for Bronowsky in Mirat for the past few years.\nEn route to Pankot, the train is stopped by a gang of Hindus, who attack Muslim passengers in retaliation for recent attacks on Hindus in Mirat.\nThe attackers demand that Kasim be turned over to them.\nBefore his fellow passengers can react, Kasim voluntarily leaves the train car and surrenders himself to the attackers, who murder him.\nPerron, Sarah and the other English passengers are unharmed, but are horrified by the slaughter of Kasim and other passengers.\nBefore leaving India again, Perron visits Hari Kumar, now living in a poor neighborhood and supporting himself by tutoring Indian students in English.\nHe leaves his card as Kumar is out.\nPerron reflects on how Kumar was caught in an impossible position, between England and India.
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conversations.value: The Jewel in the Crown (TV series): The serial opens in the 1940s in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore, against the backdrop of the last years of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.\nHari Kumar (Art Malik) is a young Indian man who was educated at \'Chillingborough\', a British public school (the British term for an elite private school); he identifies as English rather than Indian.\nThe bankruptcy of his father, a formerly successful businessman, forces him to return to India to live with his aunt.\nWorking as a journalist, Kumar sees that his position is lower in India, where he is discriminated against by many British colonists and held in some suspicion by Indian independence activists.\nHe becomes involved with a British woman, Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge), who does not share the prejudices of most of her people.\nOne night, after Hari and Daphne make love in the public Bibighar Gardens, at the same time that violent anti-British demonstrations are taking place elsewhere in the city, the couple are attacked by a group of unknown Indian men.\nHari is beaten and Daphne is raped showing that not only the British opposed relationships across ethnic boundaries.\nThe local Indian Police superintendent is Ronald Merrick (Tim Pigott-Smith), a young Englishman who is intelligent, hardworking, and from a lower-class background.\nHe had made advances to Daphne during her first months in India and been politely but firmly rebuffed.\nHe arrests Hari for her rape, holding him in the local jail, where he beats and sexually humiliates him.\nMerrick resents Hari\'s privileged education and he resents Daphne\'s preferring the young Indian to him.\nBecause Daphne refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the police do not prosecute Hari for rape.\nBut Merrick arrests Kumar and a group of young, educated Indians, sending them to prison for detention without trial under the security regulations adopted to deal with suppressing the Indian independence movement.\nWord that Hari was tortured causes outrage in the Indian community.\nMerrick is transferred from Mayapore to a smaller and less important town in the province.\nDaphne learns she is pregnant.\nShe chooses to believe the father is Hari, though she can\'t know whether it is he or one of the rapists who is the father.\nShe dies in childbirth.\nThe mixed-race child, a girl, is taken in by Daphne\'s aunt, Lady Manners, widow of a former provincial governor.\nWhile Lady Manners takes the infant to the resort area of Srinagar, she meets Sarah Layton, a young British woman on vacation with her mother and her sister Susan.\nSarah and Susan\'s father is the colonel of the Indian Army regiment in Pankot, a hill station near Mayapore.\nHe is being held as a prisoner of war in Germany, where his unit was captured.\nSusan and their mother prefer to stay away from Lady Manners due to the scandal of her great-niece\'s illegitimate birth, but Sarah pays a call on Lady Manners and the two women become friendly.\nSarah and her family soon encounter Merrick, who has left the police and procured a commission in the Indian Army.\nTeddie Bingham (Nicholas Farrell), an Indian Army officer and the fiancé of Sarah\'s sister Susan, is stationed in the nearby princely state of Mirat; Merrick, also assigned there, happens to share quarters with him.\nBecause the unit is soon to leave for the border with Burma, Teddie and Susan have to marry in Mirat.\nWhen Teddie\'s best man for the ceremony becomes ill, he asks Merrick to step in.\nMerrick, seeing a relationship with the upper-class Teddie and the Laytons as a means to career advancement, is pleased to help.\nWhile Merrick and Teddie are driving to the ceremony a stone is thrown at their car, slightly injuring Teddie.\nMerrick understands that he was the target of the attack, as this is one of a series of incidents suggesting he is being harassed because of his treatment of Kumar and the other suspects in the Manners case in Mayapore.\nSoon after the wedding Teddie and Merrick leave for the Burma front with their unit.\nTeddie is soon killed in an ambush by soldiers of the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army (INA).\nMerrick is badly wounded trying to get Teddie to safety and is evacuated to a hospital in Calcutta.\nWhen Sarah visits him (at Susan\'s request) to thank him, she learns that his arm is to be amputated and that his face will be permanently disfigured by burn scars.\nMerrick reveals to Sarah that Teddie was ambushed because of him.\nTeddie had left their unit to try to persuade two Indian soldiers of his regiment, who had been captured by the Japanese and joined the INA, to surrender and come in.\nMerrick believes Teddie took this risk to prove to him that the Indian soldiers, even after becoming turncoats, would resume their loyalty to the British if given the chance.\nFaced with losing his arm and being left permanently disfigured, Merrick\'s hostility against Indians has increased.\nLady Manners presses to gain a formal inquiry into the arrest and detention of Hari Kumar.\nIt is conducted by Nigel Rowan (Nicholas Le Prevost) an aide to the governor of the province.\nOnly during the interview does Hari learn that Daphne is dead.\nAfter Rowan establishes that Hari was tortured by Merrick and there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by him, he arranges the young man\'s release from prison.\nNo action is taken against Merrick, however.\nAfter his convalescence, Merrick is promoted and assigned to intelligence activities concerning the INA and Indian soldiers who collaborated with the enemy.\nHe comes across the Laytons again in Bombay, where Sarah is reunited with her father, Colonel Layton, just released from a German POW camp following Germany\'s surrender.\nMerrick is there to interrogate an Indian soldier who had served under Colonel Layton and assisted the Germans after Layton\'s unit was captured, and who has been deported to India.\nMerrick gains assistance from Sergeant Guy Perron (Charles Dance), a young Cambridge graduate and Indian history scholar, who was serving with an Intelligence Corps Field Security unit; he speaks fluent Urdu and is asked to observe the interrogation.\nMerrick learns that Perron also attended Chillingborough, and happened to know Hari Kumar when they were students.\nAfter the interrogation, Perron runs into Merrick and Sarah Layton by chance at a party.\nHe accompanies them to the apartment of Layton\'s aunt, where Sarah and her father are staying temporarily.\nSarah and Perron are attracted to each other.\nMerrick decides to have Perron assigned to assist him in further investigations of Indian soldiers who became collaborators.\nPerron and Sarah both find Merrick distasteful, but Perron has no choice but to work with him.\nAfter the death of her husband Teddie and the difficult birth of their son, the young widow Susan Layton Bingham suffers a mental breakdown and is treated in a hospital in Pankot.\nWhen Merrick returns to the Pankot area while working on his inquiry into collaborators, he starts to court Susan and ultimately marries her.\nPerron later learns that Merrick blackmailed a young British hospital clerk into giving him access to Susan\'s medical records, apparently to learn about her mental state and use this material to persuade her to marry him.\nHer sister Sarah dislikes Merrick and is opposed to the marriage, but she is unable to stop it.\nWith the surrender of Japan in 1945, the war in the East is ended, and the days of British rule in India are clearly numbered.\nPerron arranges a quick exit from the Army and returns to Cambridge and his academic career.\nDue to his imminent departure, he and Sarah must suspend their relationship.\nThe Layton parents plan to return to England.\nMerrick intends to stay on, having gotten a contract from the government of Mirat to reorganize their police force.\nIn 1947, with the transition to Indian independence under way, Perron returns to India as an historian to observe the process.\nVisiting Mirat at the invitation of its Chief Minister, Count Bronowsky, whom he met briefly on his last trip to Bombay, Perron learns that Merrick has died, apparently as a result of a riding accident.\nThe situation in Mirat is tense due to conflict between Hindus and Muslims related to independence.\nBronowsky tells Perron the real story behind Merrick\'s death.\nHe relates that Merrick died in the course of a sexual rendezvous with a young Indian man who was probably employed by independent activists and who was believed to have let in an assassin who killed Merrick.\nThe authorities cover up the details of Merrick\'s death, fearing reprisals from the Indians in this time of political uncertainty regarding British departure.\nThe two discuss their view that, in leaving India, the British are opening up "Pandora\'s Box," releasing the ancient competition for power between the Hindus and Muslims, who had earlier conquered and ruled the country.\nSome confrontations had been restrained by the power of the British as rulers.\nSarah, Susan and their aunt attend Merrick\'s funeral in Mirat.\nPerron decides to accompany them on the train back to Pankot.\nJoining them is Ahmed Kasim, the educated son of a prominent Muslim politician who has been working for Bronowsky in Mirat for the past few years.\nEn route to Pankot, the train is stopped by a gang of Hindus, who attack Muslim passengers in retaliation for recent attacks on Hindus in Mirat.\nThe attackers demand that Kasim be turned over to them.\nBefore his fellow passengers can react, Kasim voluntarily leaves the train car and surrenders himself to the attackers, who murder him.\nPerron, Sarah and the other English passengers are unharmed, but are horrified by the slaughter of Kasim and other passengers.\nBefore leaving India again, Perron visits Hari Kumar, now living in a poor neighborhood and supporting himself by tutoring Indian students in English.\nHe leaves his card as Kumar is out.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Hari, Daphne, Lady entitled The Jewel in the Crown?
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conversations.value: The Jewel in the Crown (novel): Much of the novel is written in the form of interviews and reports of conversations and research from the point of view of a narrator.\nOther portions are in the form of letters from one character to another or entries in their diaries.\nStill others take the form of reports from an omniscient observer.\nThe story is set in 1942 in Mayapore, a fictional city in an unnamed province of British India.\nThe province, which is located in northern India, shares characteristics with Punjab and the United Provinces.\nThe names of places and people suggest a connection to Bengal; however, the physical characteristics place the setting in north-central India, rather than in northeast India.\nThe province has an agricultural plain and, in the north, a mountainous region.\nDibrapur is a smaller town about 75 miles away.\nMayapore, although not the capital of the province, is a relatively large city, with a significant British presence in the cantonment area, where native Indians are not permitted to live.\nAcross the rail lines lies the "black town," where the native population resides.\nThere is also a Eurasian Quarter, the residence of the mixed-race (Anglo-Indian) population of the city.\nDaphne Manners, who has lost her immediate family in England, comes to India to live with her only remaining family member, Lady Manners.\nLady Manners sends her to Mayapore to stay with her Indian friend, Lady Chatterjee.\nWhile staying with Lady Chatterjee, whom she calls "Auntie Lili," Daphne meets Hari Kumar.\nHe is an Indian who was brought up in England and educated at Chillingborough, a public school that Daphne\'s own brother attended.\nHari speaks only English, but his father\'s financial collapse and suicide obliged Hari to return to India.\nDaphne learns to despise the attitudes of the English in India and also grows to love Hari.\nMeanwhile, the local police superintendent, Ronald Merrick, becomes infatuated with Daphne.\nMerrick, of lower-middle-class English origin, is resentful of the privileged English "public school" class and contemptuous of Indians.\nHari thus represents everything that Merrick hates.\nAfter Daphne and Hari make love in a public park, the Bibighar Gardens, they are attacked by a mob of rioters who by chance witnessed their lovemaking.\nHari is beaten and Daphne is raped repeatedly.\nKnowing that Hari will be implicated in her rape, Daphne swears him to silence regarding his presence at the scene.\nBut she does not count on the instincts of Ronald Merrick, who, upon learning of the rape, immediately takes Hari into custody and engages in a lengthy and sadistic interrogation that includes sexual humiliation.\nMerrick also arrests a group of educated young Indians, including some of Hari\'s colleagues at the Mayapore Gazette.\nDaphne steadfastly refuses to support the prosecution of Hari and the others for rape.\nShe insists that her attackers were peasants and included at least one Muslim (although she was blindfolded, she could tell he was circumcised) and could not be young, educated Hindus like Hari and his acquaintances who have been taken into custody.\nThe inquest is frustrated when Daphne threatens to testify that, for all she knows, her attackers could have been Englishmen.\nHari puzzles the authorities by refusing to say anything, even in his own defence (he has been sworn to secrecy by Daphne, and he honours that pledge to the letter).\nBecause the authorities cannot successfully prosecute him for rape, they instead imprison him under a wartime law as a suspected revolutionary.\nAnd Daphne\'s refusal to aid a prosecution for rape leads to her being reviled and ostracized by the English community of Mayapore and of British India as a whole, where her case has become a cause celebre.\nAlthough unknown to Hari, Daphne is pregnant; the child\'s paternity is impossible to determine, but she considers the child to be Hari\'s.\nShe returns to her aunt, Lady Manners, to give birth, but a pre-existing medical condition results in her death.\nLady Manners takes the child, Parvati, to Kashmir.\nParvati\'s physical resemblance to Hari satisfies Lady Manners and Lady Chatterjee that Hari was her biological father.
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conversations.value: \nParvati\'s physical resemblance to Hari satisfies Lady Manners and Lady Chatterjee that Hari was her biological father.\nOther portions are in the form of letters from one character to another or entries in their diaries.\nStill others take the form of reports from an omniscient observer.\nThe story is set in 1942 in Mayapore, a fictional city in an unnamed province of British India.\nThe province, which is located in northern India, shares characteristics with Punjab and the United Provinces.\nThe names of places and people suggest a connection to Bengal; however, the physical characteristics place the setting in north-central India, rather than in northeast India.\nThe province has an agricultural plain and, in the north, a mountainous region.\nDibrapur is a smaller town about 75 miles away.\nMayapore, although not the capital of the province, is a relatively large city, with a significant British presence in the cantonment area, where native Indians are not permitted to live.\nAcross the rail lines lies the "black town," where the native population resides.\nThere is also a Eurasian Quarter, the residence of the mixed-race (Anglo-Indian) population of the city.\nDaphne Manners, who has lost her immediate family in England, comes to India to live with her only remaining family member, Lady Manners.\nLady Manners sends her to Mayapore to stay with her Indian friend, Lady Chatterjee.\nWhile staying with Lady Chatterjee, whom she calls "Auntie Lili," Daphne meets Hari Kumar.\nHe is an Indian who was brought up in England and educated at Chillingborough, a public school that Daphne\'s own brother attended.\nHari speaks only English, but his father\'s financial collapse and suicide obliged Hari to return to India.\nDaphne learns to despise the attitudes of the English in India and also grows to love Hari.\nMeanwhile, the local police superintendent, Ronald Merrick, becomes infatuated with Daphne.\nMerrick, of lower-middle-class English origin, is resentful of the privileged English "public school" class and contemptuous of Indians.\nHari thus represents everything that Merrick hates.\nAfter Daphne and Hari make love in a public park, the Bibighar Gardens, they are attacked by a mob of rioters who by chance witnessed their lovemaking.\nHari is beaten and Daphne is raped repeatedly.\nKnowing that Hari will be implicated in her rape, Daphne swears him to silence regarding his presence at the scene.\nBut she does not count on the instincts of Ronald Merrick, who, upon learning of the rape, immediately takes Hari into custody and engages in a lengthy and sadistic interrogation that includes sexual humiliation.\nMerrick also arrests a group of educated young Indians, including some of Hari\'s colleagues at the Mayapore Gazette.\nDaphne steadfastly refuses to support the prosecution of Hari and the others for rape.\nShe insists that her attackers were peasants and included at least one Muslim (although she was blindfolded, she could tell he was circumcised) and could not be young, educated Hindus like Hari and his acquaintances who have been taken into custody.\nThe inquest is frustrated when Daphne threatens to testify that, for all she knows, her attackers could have been Englishmen.\nHari puzzles the authorities by refusing to say anything, even in his own defence (he has been sworn to secrecy by Daphne, and he honours that pledge to the letter).\nBecause the authorities cannot successfully prosecute him for rape, they instead imprison him under a wartime law as a suspected revolutionary.\nAnd Daphne\'s refusal to aid a prosecution for rape leads to her being reviled and ostracized by the English community of Mayapore and of British India as a whole, where her case has become a cause celebre.\nAlthough unknown to Hari, Daphne is pregnant; the child\'s paternity is impossible to determine, but she considers the child to be Hari\'s.\nShe returns to her aunt, Lady Manners, to give birth, but a pre-existing medical condition results in her death.\nLady Manners takes the child, Parvati, to Kashmir.The Jewel in the Crown (novel): Much of the novel is written in the form of interviews and reports of conversations and research from the point of view of a narrator.