Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve Ivan Pepelnjak A mother and her two

A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table

her burning paper talismans

such as comedians Shazia Mirza and Paul Kerensa and ex-Communard Richard Coles

as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War

and save lives

Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve Ivan Pepelnjak A mother and her twoA majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pataya 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