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by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne

After meeting a compelling woman on holiday, a disillusioned civil servant helps develop a controversial business model based on sex tourism. Their subsequent return to Thailand reveals the dangerous realities of human desire and its commercial exploitation.

Accession 18213 ISBN 9780099437888 Publisher Vintage Books
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