Bangkok in the late 70s. A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation. The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures. Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish, the male narrator is caught between the temptation to help and the need to look after number one.
This not so ordinary story, whose narrative technique is akin to Albert Camus's The Fall, has an altogether different import:
The girl's cancer is Thai society's, caught between tradition and modernity and its resultant dehumanisation.
By the celebrated author of SEA Write Award winning The Judgment and Time, as well as Mad Dogs & Co, Carrion floating by and A Baker's Dozen
Il n'y a pas encore de discussion sur ce livre
Soyez le premier à en lancer une !
Dans ce recueil de 13 nouvelles, la jeune autrice mexicaine frappe fort mais juste
Une fiction historique glaçante et inoubliable, aux confins de l’Antarctique
Découvrez les derniers trésors littéraires de l'année !
"On n'est pas dans le futurisme, mais dans un drame bourgeois ou un thriller atmosphérique"
