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S.P. Somtow; Preface by William Hjortsberg
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Featuring the World Fantasy Award Winning story "The Bird Catcher,"
OTHER EDENS is a collection of five genre-defying novellas by Thai
author-composer S.P. Somtow, author of the acclaimed "Jasmine
Nights" and "Dragon's Fin Soup." From 1st Century Palestine to the
baroque perplexities of the American South and postwar Siam, with
characters from the Virgin Mary to a Chinese serial killer, the
stories explore the idea of alternate paradises and provide
astonishing, sometimes shocking, perspectives about humanity's
yearning for a better place.
Here are eight of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow's most
controversial stories, including three previously uncollected ones.
Each deals with a "sacred cow" of the Judaeo-Christian tradition
and subjects it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian,
mythographer, and fantasist. Violent, sometimes kinky, these
stories nevertheless reach surprising epiphanies about faith and
redemption. A curiously sympathetic Antichrist hunts down the next
messiah with the aid of a unicorn. St Paul ponders about whether,
in order to make his miraculous new religion work, he needs to get
rid of an inconvenient Jesus. An entertainment mogul in ancient
Rome figures out how to cut costs by staging resurrections in the
arena. Lot's daughter has managed to survive as a vampire and pours
out her heart in an incest survivors' support group.... These
aren't the Bible stories you learned in Sunday school - yet they
raise many of the questions you may not have dared ask
there.Between them the eight stories in this book were nominated
for ten awards, including Bram Stokers, International Horror Guild
Awards, and an Asimov's Magazine Reader Poll.
..".the J.D. Salinger of Siam"
--George Axelrod, Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Breakfast at
Tiffany's"
"S. P. Somtow doesn't write like anybody else...and when he
wants to spook you, he can drive the chill bone deep."
--Dean Koontz
In an exotic re-telling of the fairytale of Bluebeard, a New Age
thirty-something is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai
millionaire and soon finds herself in Bangkok's brave new world of
shamans, shopping malls, and high society serial killers.
Originally written as a cliff-hanging serial for Bangkok's "The
Nation" newspaper, "Bluebeard's Castle" is a roller-coaster novel
that leapfrogs from genre to genre and culture to culture, turning
the western preconception of Bangkok as a "city of temples and
prostitutes" on its ear. A darkly comic odyssey populated with wild
characters, with intimate glimpses into a culture rarely written
about.
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