Called "striking" by The New York Times Book Review, Gold by the Inch is the story of a young New Yorker of Asian descent who has returned to the country of his birth following a disastrous relationship and his fathers death. In a Bangkok drunk on the nations financial miracle and high on an assortment of other things the narrator meets Thong, a young, beautiful male hustler who works at a nightclub. As his romantic obsession with Thong grows, the narrator tries to convince himself that it transcends its commercial nature, but he is quickly forced into a hard look at the connections between desire and exploitation, personal and national identity. Lawrence Chua vividly combines Southeast Asias troubled history with evocations of its modern face its polyglot culture, its colonial past, the cool futurism of its skyscrapers and its sex industry. Written in hardbitten, dazzling prose, Gold by the Inch is a stunning debut.

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.; Classification: FA; Weight: 380 g; Dimensions: 205 x 126 x 16

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