Waiting
for the Lady |
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Sloan Wolcott, an American expat in Bangkok, a part-time art dealer and smuggler and a full-time rogue, comes into possession of a camera belonging to a Japanese newspaper reporter killed in a suspicious car crash. Inside the camera, he finds several images of the Lady, Aung San Suu Kyi, one of her riding in an automobile with a bullet hole in the rear window and one lone picture of a mysterious, seduc-tive young woman with a singular tattoo. |
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“Compelling
story lines . . . that come together in a gripping climax.” “Ambitious
and sadly beautiful book.” “Amusing
and illuminating . . . a narrative whose authenticity is never in
doubt, where global historical realities are seamlessly knit together
with a strong, unpretentious yarn.” “In
addition to creating a convincing, entertaining narrator, Sloan,
and a story that engages the past and its images on several levels,
Moore crafts a tragic Myanmar landscape, mixing in-depth knowledge
of the place and its history with a compelling tale populated with
characters anyone would be glad to have as travel companions.” “A
charged atmosphere reminiscent of Peter Weir’s The Year of
Living Dangerously” “The
powerful sentiments stirred in [Waiting for the Lady] affirm that
Asia still boasts places where people's emotions are not swaddled
in cotton.” “Moore’s
knowledge of the region and his ability to convey it is best about
Waiting for the Lady.” “Christopher
G. Moore is an author who can conjure up a plausible story to keep
you reading his books till the last page. Waiting for the Lady is
no exception to this. A great read.” >>read more ctitical reviews of the book l >>main literary fiction |
