Bangkok-based author Christopher G. Moore, who I interviewed a few months ago, has been writing a great author blog on his website for the last few months. It's a perfect example of how an author should be publicising their work by writing more around it, finding new angles to approach their favourite topics. Recent posts include authenticity in films and books and our collective memory of books. Great stuff.

I've just finished reading Moore's novel Waiting For The Lady, set in Burma and revolving around Aung San Su Kyi, Burma's wartime history and its colonisation by both the British and Japanese. It's a great book, deftly spanning decades of history without losing the reader and driven by a larger-than-life narrator, Sloan, who provides some much needed comic relief along the way.

This my second Moore book, (the first one I read was Tokyo Joe, mainly revolving around Japanese wartime events), so I still have yet to read his writings on Thailand, which is where he made his name. (A Killing Smile, is, I think, his most popular/well-known book, part of the Land Of Smiles trilogy). Waiting For The Lady is partially set in Bangkok and is very evocative the Sukhumvit area where I live, so I'm really interested to read his previous books that depict Thailand in the 1970s as it made its transition to democracy.

More on Waiting For The Lady:
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Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 1/16/2006 06:01:13 AM