Publication

2002-02-01 - Kodansha International (JPN)

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-104770026862
  • ISBN-139784770026866
  • Goodreads205221
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002491693
  • OCLC Control Number49282195
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPL853.K45 H36 2001

Description

Based on a true story of the 1980s, the action centers on Asia-traveling Japanese artist "Tez" Nishijima and his Europhile sister Kaoru. When Tez is arrested in Bali on charges of heroin trafficking and faces the death penalty, his parents are paralyzed with shame, leaving his Paris-based sister to come to the rescue. She enlists the help of an old expert on Indonesia and two of his friends, and sets off to face a shadowy and alien situation. Her brother, languishing in jail, thinks back over his journeys in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, to the two women who changed his life there, to his subsequent slow spiral into drug addiction, and to the day a police stooge planted heroin in his room in the Kuta Beach "backpack territory" of Bali.

First Sentence

Bali isn't Paris, though both are islands-not that I ever really understood how the Greater Parisian Ile-de-France could claim to be an island in the middle of continental Europe.

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