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An Apostate

by Steven David Justin Sills

Older, Nawin Biangklang, the famous Thai artist, finds his newly acquired wealth stifling. The novel delineates his repudiation of old relationships just as he had repudiated former family and embarking on a train journey to Laos. Written in a poetic and philosophical stream of consciousness, the novel probes the cliche of a midlife crisis with great psychological depth