Patrick Holland
Paperback | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 3.6 | 55 Users | 18 Reviews
Describe Out Of Books The Darkest Little Room
| Title | : | The Darkest Little Room |
| Author | : | Patrick Holland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2012 by Transit Lounge Publishing |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Mystery. Crime. Thriller |
Relation As Books The Darkest Little Room
Patrick’s Holland’s haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric literary thriller, it tells the story of a foreign journalist living in Saigon who, shortly after reporting on a murdered girl washed up in Saigon River, is approached by a foreigner describing a brothel known as ‘the darkest little room in Saigon’. The mysterious man shows him a photograph of a beautiful woman covered in wounds and the journalist investigates, not only out of suspicion that women are being maltreated, but also in the hope of finding someone from his past.Rich in setting and characterisation, and pure in voice, The Darkest Little Room explores the elemental dilemmas of being an outsider, the nature of desire, and the risks of loving, especially in a world where no one is who they seem.
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| ISBN: | 1921924241 (ISBN13: 9781921924248) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Out Of Books The Darkest Little Room
Ratings: 3.6 From 55 Users | 18 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books The Darkest Little Room
A cynical journalist, seeking redemption, must rescue a prostitute, and the novel subtly asks the reader to remember Christ's rescue of Magdalene, but here's the twist: the girl, the lowly prostitute, with the miraculous marks on her body, who effectively comes back from the dead, is the redeemer. To quote/adjust Isaiah "By her wounds he his healed". You don't do a three week tour of Indochina and come back with a book like this, perhaps the best novel written in English on Indochina since theThis is so beautiful I want to cry every time I pick it up. I'm half way through, but here's just one example of what I'm talking about, when the heroine the hero and an unnamed man in a car meet on a bridge at night. "But he knew she would return. At some depth of night, when the cold and hot flushes and the palpitations and nausea and the pain of living became too much she would return to him. I wondered if, like me, he imagined he cared enough not to give her too much of what she needed: only
This is so beautiful I want to cry every time I pick it up. I'm half way through, but here's just one example of what I'm talking about, when the heroine the hero and an unnamed man in a car meet on a bridge at night. "But he knew she would return. At some depth of night, when the cold and hot flushes and the palpitations and nausea and the pain of living became too much she would return to him. I wondered if, like me, he imagined he cared enough not to give her too much of what she needed: only
Interesting, convoluted. A bit abrupt at the end.A story of a Vietnamese speaking Australian who seeks to find his lost love in Saigon. It becomes a story of deceit and intrigue.There was a depth during the telling of the story that I enjoyed but the ending seemed to lack that depth and become a kind of attempt to tie everything up. I enjoyed the layers as the story unravelled.It's also a look at one of the dark sides of Vietnam.
The Darkest Little Room is a thriller written in clean, luminous prose. There's so much in this book: starting with the the evocation of "the radiant locales of inner Saigon" a place "awful and strange" which the main character,a foreign journalist called Joseph, never wants to leave. Then there's the investigation of a murder, and the surprising places this leads Joseph, set against the sad and sordid backdrop of human trafficking. There's love and estrangement in Joseph's yearning for Thuy,
I like that it took me somewhere I had never been. Beautiful darkness.
So beautiful. So strange.
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