Patrick Anderson plunges us into a variegated, hilarious and often haunted world of rat-infested midnight streets, shady cosmopolitans, shopkeepers and Colonial Servants, gay and earnest students: his range includes not only the everyday, with its personal irritations and political controversies, but also the poetry of flowers, temples, strange animals and beautiful people. For a while, he lived in a lonely house on the edge of bandit-infested jungle, and his account of this is one of the most fascinating things in the book.
Contents:
A Sequence of Letters
The Keys of Ah Ting
Down Orchard Road
The Cannas on the Campus
Matins with the Monkey God
Buying a Monkey
Profile of a City
I move to the Jungle
The House
The Silence of Ah Tum
Chinese Babies
The Babies
Weight | 0.3 kg |
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Publisher | CHATTO & WINDUS |
Publication Year | 1955 |
Pages | 288 |
Format | Hardcover |