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Somerset Maugham set sail for British Burma in 1923 expecting tigers, pythons, headhunters, and strange exotic fruits; instead, he found a power hierarchy tottering under the weight of self-importance.
George Orwell’s extraordinary talent for understanding the human race was born from the streets and back alleys of British India and Myanmar; these Eastern lands informed one of the greatest literary minds of the Western world.
Graham Greene’s Saigon was a different world, a planet all its own where the fictional Thomas Fowler from the Quiet American was yet unborn.
Long before the dystopian Clockwork Orange hit shelves, Southeast Asia would see Anthony Burgess in Malaysia; a grammar school teacher would go to Malaysia and Singapore to make his name with the Malayan Trilogy.
Author and filmmaker James Newman takes readers on a dark walk through Thailand’s capital, a journey through the more noir world of Bangkok.