Kirjahaku

Six cartridges. Four Noble Truths and one maybe-monk. Luther plays the fiddle, the Colonel choking on his cigar and Rei has an itch she can't scratch. Everyone tryin' to stay in the zone. And don't even mention those goddamn chimps doin' that Elvis thing of theirs. Man in a Zen Ambulance propels the reader into a violent 1950s world of rockabilly, yakuza, temples and chrome-laden tail-finned cars.

When worlds collide Full-time Fifties obsessive and part-time Buddhist, Neville Palmer escapes from his psychiatrist and flies to Thailand armed with a suitcase full of vintage music and pneumatic breasts. But he soon discovers that Thai family life is even more dysfunctional than he is. Neville learns what it's like to loy your krathong, teach English on the wild side and how things can go horribly wrong when you don't keep a firm grip on your soft bits. Neville Changes Villages is an absurdly original and affectionate comedy about life, love and teaching in Thailand before the Internet took over the world.