Harmless - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

The action of the novel is compressed into the late morning and afternoon of a single day. Two of the protagonists, an eight year old girl, Amanda, and an elderly Thai man, Rattuwat, are on their way to visit Amanda's father in prison when their car breaks down. Amanda's father, Dave, is forced into some kind of reckoning with himself when his visitors fail to show, and spends the afternoon regretting his failures, as a father and as a de facto husband to Sua, the Thai woman whom he rescues from her abusive husband, but then leaves, escaping back into the familiar security of prison. 'Harmless' was originally inspired by The Jatakas, stories of the Buddha's former births, and it is the Buddha as outcast that shines through the narrative,and the grace one outcast can unexpectedly confer upon another.

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