Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man (Sewanee Writers' Series) - Hardcover

Tuck, Lily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879517239 ISBN 13: 9780879517236

Verlag: Sewanee Writers', 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Tuck Lily

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Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction.

Biografía del autor:

Lily Tuck was born in Paris and lived in Thailand in the early '60s. She is the author of two previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, Or the Woman Died Standing Up and The Woman Who Walked on Water. She has written numerous short stories, the most recent of which have been published in The New Yorker, Fiction, and The Antioch Review.

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• Verlag: Sewanee Writers'
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879517239
• ISBN 13: 9780879517236
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192