- Social life and customs, Ethnology, Humor, Description and travel
The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati--possibly The Worst Place on Earth.At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs--decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati.
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Contemporary, comic, classical in form and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- J. Maarten Troost
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Blackstone Audio Inc., Broadway Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407069203
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