The universal experience of not belonging in a place or situation--psychic exile, so to speak--unites the three short novels in this powerful collection. A young man falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish him with attention and with unexpected dilemmas; a beguiling but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very identity; and a squad of misfits plunges into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant, who has been abducted by a tiger.
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The universal experience of not belonging in a place or situation--psychic exile, so to speak--unites the three short novels in this powerful collection. A young man falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish him with attention and with unexpected dilemmas; a beguiling but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very identity; and a squad of misfits plunges into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant, who has been abducted by a tiger.
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