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Beijing $17.58 Relax, I told myself. You’re having an adventure. Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city–both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture. David chronicles his adventures in China as he wrestles with cultural dislocation, loneliness, and sexual and spiritual longing. After a series of both comic and poignant encounters with gay Chinese men, he meets Bosheng, a handsome young artist. Though the attraction is strong, a difficult courtship ensues, during which Bosheng returns to his ancestral village to marry the girl his parents have chosen for him. Eventually, and quite unexpectedly, David and Bosheng reconnect and share an idyllic spring together. As the year ends, David must decide whether to say goodbye or face the uncertainties of along-distance relationship. Philip Gambone’s novel is peopled with a host of wonderfully memorable characters: Owen, David’s forthright best friend back home; Auntie Chen, the clinic’s office mom, who wants to fix David up with a girlfriend; Stewart, David’s Beijing roommate, a graduate student doing research on Peking opera; Jiantao and Guoyang, two lovers who lecture David on the fleeting quality of American romance; and Tyson, the Australian doctor with a Chinese girlfriend, who hopes to teach David that love doesn’t need any explanations or justifications. |
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Expat: Survival of an Expatriate in Latin America $16.24 An American expatriate working as a manager of a newsmagazine, Whitt finds himself surrounded by compelling, oftentimes dangerous individuals with little or no interest in anything other than obtaining political achievement and monetary gain. In defense of his company and himself, Whitt finds himself in many a compromising, even dangerous, position, upholding loyalty to his native United States of America, his colleagues, and himself. Experience firsthand the Mexico City massacre of hundreds of students, a bloodless coup of the president of a sovereign Latin American nation, negotiations with Marxist ideologues, power-driven dictators, and kidnapping terrorists entrenched in criminal operations. Enter the social scene as Whitt solidifies friendships, embraces cultural norms, and finds time to explore the exciting social scene Latin America has to offer. Readers will run the gamut of emotions as the true-life situations of Robert Ampudia Whitt III are brought to light in Expat. |
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An Expat’s Life, Luxembourg & the White Rose: Part of an Englishman Living Abroad Series $20.76 An Expat’s Life, Luxembourg & The White Rose is a refreshing and forthright take on the Englishman Abroad genre. Reading David Robinson’s relaxed prose is like sitting down for a drink or two with the author in the pub of the title. Indeed, as the tome progresses, so the reader warms to Robinson’s down-to-earth character. The author’s very personal view of an expat’s life in Luxembourg is not overbearing, and even the most informed reader will learn something new about the history of the Grand Duchy, its bureaucracy and social conventions and attitudes. The book is brimful with little snippets of useful information and trivia for those unfamiliar with the country, and Robinson’s anecdotes will spark empathy with readers who live, or have lived, in Luxembourg. –Duncan Roberts, editor of 352 Magazine. |