Tea of Ulaanbaatar
Overview
National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard's debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious "blood tea" that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans--or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind--as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him.
With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel's satiric bite, William Burroughs's dark historical reimagining, and a lush literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark side of globalization, and middle-class nightmares--and announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781609800864
- ISBN-10: 1609800869
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- Publish Date: May 2011
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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