The consul's file
By: Paul Theroux.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Americans -- Malaysia -- Fiction; Consuls -- Fiction; Malaysia -- Fiction
Description: In this 1978 compilation, Paul Theroux offers twenty stand-alone (and originally serialized) chapters told through the eyes of a young American consul posted to a small Malaysian town in the 1970s. The stories are chronological picking up when the narrator arrives in country and ending with a letter he writes as he departs. --Richard T at Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: The consul's file.; title: Dependent wife.; title: White Christmas.; title: Pretend I'm not here.; title: Loser wins.; title: The flower of Malaya.; title: The autumn dog.; title: Dengué fever.; title: The South Malaysia Pineapple Growers' Association.; title: The butterfly of the Laruts.; title: The tennis court.; title: Reggie Woo.; title: Conspirators.; title: The Johore murders.; title: The tiger's suit.; title: Coconut gatherer.; title: The last colonial.; title: Triad.; title: Diplomatic relations.; title: Dear William.