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But, fed by a steam of books and accompanied by his pet chameleon, Little Frog refuses to accept that he is Thai; eats English food; speaks only English; and answers to the name Justin.Into Justin's eclectically fashioned, whirling fantasy world s

• Title : Jasmine Nights
• Author : S.P. Somtow
• Rating : 4.69 (860 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-10-1
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 142 Pages
• Asin : B00FTUEM7S
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But, fed by a steam of books and accompanied by his pet chameleon, Little Frog refuses to accept that he is Thai; eats English food; speaks only English; and answers to the name Justin.

Into Justin's eclectically fashioned, whirling fantasy world steps Virgil, a black American boy, and together they embark on a glorious spree of magic and growing up, in which sex, adult confusions, comedy, farce, politics, and the voices of the East and West are fused into a voyage of exhilarating discovery.

"Intelligent, energetic, humane, engaging, humorous, delicate, and beautiful." Louis de Bernieres.

"A vibrant coming-of-age novel." The Sunday Times

"Charming, elegant, and funny a novel like no other and a joy to read." Cosmopolitan

"Entertaining, irresistible, gleefully absurd. How encouraging that a literary novel can be so much fun." The Washington Post

"The J. Salinger of Siam

At twelve years old, Little Frog has a richly fantastic and sustaining

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The plot includes blackmail, seduction, shamanism; a raunchy metaphysical satire on sex and death; a send-up of the West's exotic image of the East; and a subversive parody of two genres, the coming-of-age novel and the mythic hero's quest. . His parents, absent for many years, may be CIA agents in Vietnam; his senile great-grandmother enacts scenes from Hitchcock's Psycho; and each of his aunts is secretly bedding the rakish family doctor. The 12-year-old narrator, a cunning if naive recluse named Justin, learns the art of adaptation, a skill he will sorely need, from his pet chameleon, Homer. From Publishers Weekly In a daring synthesis of East and West, the Thai-born Somtow, whose previous books include several horror novels (including the popular Vampire Junction and its sequel, Valentine) spins a