I really liked the narration of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Two narrators actually, one who does the first person narration of Amina which accounts for the majority of the story, and one other narrator serving as a story teller filling in narrative details, letters that appeared between chapters, and that sort of thing.

The narrators felt like they were part of the world the book describes, and Amina's parts in particular are told as though she's recounting her story at a tavern (complete with occasionally turning away to shout at a particularly obtuse listener). In short, it feels exactly like you're listening to the pirate captain recounting her own tale.