This is an anti-travel book, a first novel by a brilliant young man. It is set in Thailand of the white Eurotrash - Thailand and the Thais play no role in it. For a while nothing happens, but expectation of great events and weirdness is constantly in the air. The end is explosive. This is not serious literature, but it is also very far from the usual light summer reading.
Garland is the author to watch.
Click here to buy this book. I first read this book when I was very young. It is about the choices we make and the consequences we suffer for them. I come back to it every few years, to see if my age and experience have made it less impressive, but find it instead only more pertinent. I especially recommend it to the readers who left Yugoslavia recently, for it will more than anything help them understand the moral choices their friends who stayed behind were forced to make.