d paragraphs is smooth. The most?striking narrative technique is the use of figure of?speech with a local flavor. For example:?We knew what to do and when to do it, just?as the Iraqi geese knew when to fly north,?driven by the hot wind that blew in from the?desert.Р… the two important-looking men from the?pany, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests munion, to wire up the telephone.?I wriggled my way through the dense forest of legs to get a firsthand look at the action.?Her house was an island fort, an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.Р…they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village.?Magdaluna became a skeleton of its former self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.