Sukhumvit Road

Sukhumvit Road

Bami is Bangkok's #1 butterfly girl, fluttering from dream to dream and lover to lover. Her life turns upside-down as former boyfriends and present beaus suddenly converge over one long weekend in the City of Angels.

There's Nathan, a thoroughly deluded young bachelor set on marrying her. Owen, an ex-minister hoping to erase his sins in forbidden love. Frank, the broken-hearted bar owner whose life is spinning out of control, and Roley, an alcoholic writing the story of her life. Filled with laughter and demons, the shocking and the hilarious, David Young weaves a no-holds barred tale of Bangkok that urban legend can't compete with. And it all takes place on Sukhumvit Road.

Reviews:

Do we really need yet another novel about Bangkok bargirls?

This one we do. This one is funny. True to its title, â€œSukhumvitâ€ takes place mostly in a narrow erotic trench running form Nana to the Thermae to Cowboy. â€œWrite about what you know,â€ Hemingway famously said, and author David Young knows his stuff. He wrote a very decent first novel called â€œThe Scribeâ€ about a farang letter-writer for Thai hookers. He wrote two more novels, which I confess I havenâ€™t read, but â€œSukhumvitâ€ â€” in terms of wacky characters, convoluted plot and wildly comic language â€” is a big advance over â€œThe Scribe.â€ Itâ€™s a good-hearted Feydeau sexual farce, threaded with an ominous streak of evil.

(James Eckardt - The Nation)

David Young has written Sukhumvit Road, his fourth book based on life in Thailand (and in Sukhumvit Road in particular). Published this year in Bangkok, it is a larger and more weighty book than his previous three (The Scribe, Thailand Joy, Fast Eddies Lucky 7 A-Go-Go).

Having reviewed the previous three novels from David Young, Sukhumvit Road came across as somewhat of a melange of all three, but with a different slant. This author can write, which can sometimes be novel for those writing novels in this country! His description of being in Thermae going, â€œThe night was one big dirty bedsheet.â€

Being a thriller, rather than a filler, it is worth the read

(Lang Ried - Pattaya Mail)

Sukhumvit Road is as much a journey through the minds of five psychological archetypes that frequent the Bangkok demimonde as it is through the places they visit, and the situations they encounter. This book clearly breeches the formulaic, and is a bold attempt to give personality to the demons that cloud menâ€™s minds as they search for love in the City of Angels.

(Thai Oasis)
Country USA
Manufacturer Hostage Press International
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2005-03-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Hostage Press International
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2005-03-01
Format	Kindle eBook

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