ISBN: 0140063307
Godina izdanja: 1983
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Deborah Moggach - Hot Water Man
Penguin, 1983
250 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

East is East and West is West…

Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company. Among the ex-pats already there is straight-talking Duke Hanson, whose all-American values cannot prevent him falling, then sinking, helplessly in love with a sophisticated Pakistani girl. In the ensuing tangle of Anglo-American-Oriental relations, the strangest things for those who have come out East are revealed in the very people with whom they arrived…

Reviews

“Wincingly funny…a tragi-comedy of manners and errors….Ms Moggach has lived there, and it shows. She’s sound on the heat, squalor and frustrations, the feel and pulse of a place where Europeans can’t really go native sinced so many natives have half-taken to European ways. It’s an ambitious book showing Asia through British and American eyes; compassionate, yet never sloppy, it notes the flaws and frailties of East and West without mockery.”
(Daily Mail)

“Remarkably good: original, perceptive and very entertaining.”
(Alison Lurie)

“Entertaining, subtle and intelligent.”
(Sunday Telegraph)