Extract from blurb (from a different copy):
Patrick Anderson plunges us into a variegated, hilarious and often haunted world of rat-infested midnight streets, shady cosmopolitans, shopkeepers and Colonial Servants, gay and earnest students: his range includes not only the everyday, with its personal irritations and political controversies, but also the poetry of flowers, temples, strange animals and beautiful people. For a while, he lived in a lonely house on the edge of bandit-infested jungle, and his account of this is one of the most fascinating things in the book.
Contents:
- A Sequence of Letters
- The Keys of Ah Ting
- Down Orchard Road
- The Cannas on the Campus
- Matins with the Monkey God
- Buying a Monkey
- Profile of a City
- I move to the Jungle
- The House
- The Silence of Ah Tum
- Chinese Babies
- The Babies
