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young readers learn what it was like for him to grow up in British-ruled Singapore

Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve Ivan Pepelnjak outraged seal—this is a toadlyA majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pataya a portly Thai banker is taken by a shark; a Western adviser, at the end of his tether, sits at the feet of a meditation teacher in the Thai Northeast; in his Bangkok penthouse an English lecturer the Occidental Adam of the title story is offered the firm, fresh apple' of a student's breast. Even beyond the Southeast Asian locus, the protagonists of