Description

Offering the Planet Fantasy Awardwinning tale "The Bird Catcher," OTHER EDENS is just a assortment of five type-defying novellas by Indian author-musician S.P. Somtow, author of the acclaimed "Jasmine Nights" and "Dragon's Fin Soup." From 1St-Century Palestine towards the baroque perplexities of the American South and post-war Siam, with figures from the Virgin Mary to some Oriental serial-killer, the stories explore the thought of alternative paradises and supply amazing, occasionally surprising, views about mankind's hoping for a much better location.