I've generally liked Paul Theroux, both his fiction and travel writing, but this collection of stories fell rather flat for me. The only one I really liked was Holy Week, the first of four in The Judas Memoir, but the rest took strange turns mostly involving very strange sex acts. Yes, the writing is good and it is very evocative but mostly put me into a time and place and characters I didn't enjoy.

Planned for release to work book sharing shelf