num_pages: 384
description: André Gide praised The Asiatics as an authentic masterpiece; Thomas Mann called it brilliant. First published in 1935 and virtually unavailable for years, this extraordinary novel tells the story of a young American--the unnamed narrator--who hitchhikes his way across Asia, from Beirut to China, living off the land and depending on the hospitality of the people he meets along the road. As Pico Iyer writes in the introduction, [Prokosch] catches the peculiar logic that makes travel a land of alternative reality, a foreign state in itself that is an intoxication.
language: English
title: The Asiatics
titlecomplete: The Asiatics
genres: Fiction, American, Asia, Travel, Literature
ratings_count: 218
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux