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 I just finished this book and did not expect to see a Wikipedia article about, much less one so well developed, it was a pleasant surprise, thank you. 

 This is a complicated book and I'm still not sure of all the various levels. The Times Literary Supplement called it "An inventive and provocative allegory of the creative process". Can anyone explain what might be meant by that? It was also interesting the novel makes subtle reference to a number of other classic works about oppression: there is a nod to Huckleberry Finn, and Oliver Twist. There may be others but those are the ones I had previously read and could see the allusions.