Samarang Hotel

by John Webb

Book Overview

Julian Lockhardt, the bombastic, heavy-drinking expat manager of the Samarang Hotel - the most prestigious hotel in Vientiane, Laos, and a gathering place for diplomats and spies - is short on self-awareness, long on self-pity. Society, so he believes, has failed him. He is easily seduced by Asia's many charms, deeply resistant to any broader understanding of its underlying values and confident - smugly so - of the supremacy of Western 'enlightenment'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912049864
• ISBN13: 9781912049868
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Monsoon Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.5"