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    Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve: ...and other stories of Thailand
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    Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve: ...and other stories of Thailand

    By John Cadet

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    A majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pattaya 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 these perceptive stories are looking back on and learning from their experience of the East.
    John Cadet is well-qualified to write of East and Southeast Asia. He has made his home there, teaching and engaging in journalism, as well as researching Thai literature, since 1961. The shorter of his stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the region and beyond, mostly under the pen-name Charles Browne.
    Cadet has something worthwhile to say. (his) characters – from lissome students to diplomatic mediocrities = embody human frailties which make them... real. Occidental Adam ... is thoroughly recommended and deserves to be widely read.” (Bangkok Post Newspaper)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateMay 9, 2014
    ISBN9781633230019
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    Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve: ...and other stories of Thailand
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    John Cadet

    J.M. Cadet was born in London but has lived in the East – mainly in Thailand – since 1961. As well as teaching English at the Chitrlada Palace School and for the British Council, he was at one time the news editor of the Bangkok World Newspaper and the initiator of the Thai TV FM Multiplex news programme. In Chiang Mai, where he now lives with his Thai wife and daughters, he has taught English literature as a special lecturer at Payap University and serves currently as an adviser for the Graduate School of Chiang Mai University. In addition to his two collections of short fiction, he has written a study of the Vessantara Jataka (a Buddhist ‘Birth Story’), and is now completing a non-fiction work, provisionally entitled The Road East.

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