- Paperback: 278 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (1 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595288618
- ISBN-13: 978-0595288618
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,181,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...the J.D. Salinger of Siam"
--George Axelrod, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's
--George Axelrod, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's
"S. P. Somtow doesn't write like anybody else...and when he wants to spook you, he can drive the chill bone deep."
--Dean Koontz
In an exotic re-telling of the fairytale of Bluebeard, a New Age thirty-something is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds herself in Bangkok's brave new world of shamans, shopping malls, and high society serial killers.
Originally written as a cliff-hanging serial for Bangkok's The Nation newspaper, Bluebeard's Castle is a roller-coaster novel that leapfrogs from genre to genre and culture to culture, turning the western preconception of Bangkok as a "city of temples and prostitutes" on its ear. A darkly comic odyssey populated with wild characters, with intimate glimpses into a culture rarely written about.
About the Author
Called "the most well-known expatriate Thai in the world" by the International Herald Tribune, S.P. Somtow is the author of some 40 books including Vampire Junction and Jasmine Nights, as well as the composer of such operas as Mae Naak. He commutes between Los Angeles and Bangkok.
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a wild an exotic dark comedy
28 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
more happens in the first few chapters of this book than in most novels, beginning with an elvis-impersonating thai shaman in encino, california, and ending up in a baroque mansion in bangkok. the pages flip by really fast in this romp (a bit over-intellectual at times, but a perfect book for the snobbish).
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