- Fiction, United States, History, Thai Americans
The setting is Thailand and the protagonists are two boys, one Thai, the other African-American. The novel traces their relationship, which is a meeting of East and West. By a Thai-born writer, author of Vampire Junction.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- S. P. Somtow
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 380
- Publisher
- Penguin, A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, H. Hamilton
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312118341
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