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Please go to Paul Theroux.com's new site, Paul TherouxFree Computer Help Forum A
natural successor to The Consul’s File, this book takes the American
narrator from Ayer Hitam to a new post in the London Embassy. As he
once observed with cool, amused eye the British and Malays, he can now
observe the British and their endless treasure trove of eccentricities
on home ground. And the Americans in the embassy are no less curious.
There is a man who is beggared when he inherits a title, the embassy
Minister who is obsessed with rage at a male employee who wears an
earring, an Arab who has come to London to rob a certain tomb, a woman
who cycles all the way to Yorkshire to perform a peculiar revenge, and
dozens of others who nurse some secret vagary -- and, with each,
Theroux produces a surprising illumination. |
