A majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pataya a portly Thai banker is taken by a shark; a Western adviser, at the end of his tether, sits at the feet of a meditation teacher in the Thai Northeast; in his Bangkok penthouse an English lecturer - the Occidental Adam of the title story - is offered the firm, fresh apple' of a student's breast. Even beyond the Southeast Asian locus, the protagonists of these perceptive stories are looking back on and learning from their experience of the East.

Published 1981.

Binding of the book is intact. Moderate shelfwear, some creasing and fraying on covers of book. Some tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pencil and moderate foxing on insides of covers. Slight foxing on certain pages.