- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (17 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 009986150X
- ISBN-13: 978-0099861508
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,112,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in the imaginary Far Eastern holy city of Malomba, this is the story of the bohemian Hemony family and Laki, the shrewd and winning bell-boy of the title. The tragi-comic story of their mutual exploitation involves, amongst other things, financial extortion and psychic-surgery.
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Format:Paperback
To travel in search of some transcendent spiritual otherness is at best bogus. To travel in search of the various expressions of human oneness is by contrast one of life's more noble callings.
This novel is as funny as the author's Gerald Samper trilogy (especially, especially Cooking With Fernet Branca) but more gentle, a little less knockabout (though not without its ribald passages, you'll be reassured to read).
Hailing from "new age" Totnes I well recognise the hippy types travelling in search of enlightenment that are portrayed here. And as a traveller I recognise the Eastern types only too willing to, ahem, enlighten them (of their purses, ha ha).
Ultimately the book shows how apologists of tourism are too naive. Tourists are as likely to prop up their destination's hegemony. That is not to argue against travel, but it is to argue against doing so with a fantasist mindset born of Orientalism.
This novel is as funny as the author's Gerald Samper trilogy (especially, especially Cooking With Fernet Branca) but more gentle, a little less knockabout (though not without its ribald passages, you'll be reassured to read).
Hailing from "new age" Totnes I well recognise the hippy types travelling in search of enlightenment that are portrayed here. And as a traveller I recognise the Eastern types only too willing to, ahem, enlighten them (of their purses, ha ha).
Ultimately the book shows how apologists of tourism are too naive. Tourists are as likely to prop up their destination's hegemony. That is not to argue against travel, but it is to argue against doing so with a fantasist mindset born of Orientalism.
Format:Paperback
It's a shame that this novel is out of print. Gentler than the Gerald Samper trilogy, it is nevertheless full of humour, satire and caustic comment. Definitely not to be missed by devotees of James Hamilton-Paterson.
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