Translated from the Danish, Jensen embarks on a journey encompassing Russia, China, Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. His travels are enriched and this resulting narrative enlightened by the company of local people who allowed him access to their homes, lives and points of view to which most travellers remain ignorant.
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"Carsten Jensen has an enviable ability to talk to a wide range of people and excels as a listener and interpreter of what lies behind conversations" (Sarah Anderson Daily Mail)
"This philosophical meditation on South-east Asia has to be one of the most politically lucid, poetically observed and elegantly translated books I've read in years" ( Independent)
"Engrossing" (James Urquart The Times)
'Fluent and human, admirably intrepid, and sees Asia anew, the poetry as well as the politics' - Paul Theroux
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