num_pages: 122
description: Two boys from impossibly distant strata of society, a novice monk whose father is a political big wig and beggar enslaved to the mafia, meet by chance on a Bangkok street and between them concoct plan to bring down an entire infrastructure of corruption. Street kids, politicians, monks and elephants will play a role in this adventure story that is also a touching tale of an unlikely friendship.
title: The Stone Buddha's Tears
publisher: Diplodocus Press