In the Fabled East Format: Paperback

Adam Lewis Schroeder

ISBN 10: 1553658124 / ISBN 13: 9781553658122

Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Fabled East Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553658124
• ISBN 13: 9781553658122
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

From one of Canada's best young voices comes a sweeping literary adventure set against the backdrop of French Indochina.

Paris, 1909: Adelie Tremier, a young widow suffering the final stages of tuberculosis, flees for French-occupied Indochina, through the lush forests of Laos, to seek out a fabled spring of immortality that might allow her to return to her nine-year-old son.

Laos, 1936: Pierre Lazarie, a young academic turned Saigon bureaucrat, is sent by Adelie's son, now an Army captain, to find his longlost mother. Although his assigned quest fulfills Pierreļ??s fantasy to travel up the exotic Mekong, he is saddled with his colleague Henri LeDallic, an Indochina old-timer who would rather glory in his loutish past than hunt for ghosts in the jungle. Yet what this mismatched pair discovers forms the mysterious heart of Adam Lewis Schroeder's brilliant and compelling new novel.

Bridging history from 1890s Aix-en-Provence to American involvement in 1950s Vietnam, In the Fabled East is a rich and sensual depiction of Southeast Asia, charting the loss of innocence of both individuals and the world at large. Echoing Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad, this is historical fiction written with wisdom and panache.

About the Author

Adam Lewis Schroeder completed a Master's degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and has since traveled extensively. He is the author of the story collection Kingdom of Monkeys and the novel Empress of Asia. He lives in the Okanagan, British Columbia with his wife and two sons.