Strange Adventures in the Ivory Trade
 | Amazon, 2006, Digital Customer Rating: Recommend |
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A year in Vietnam! I knew I was in for an exotic time, but from the moment I found a piano in a dental surgery in a crowded street in Hanoi, life was suddenly more than exotic - it was downright strange. I arrived as a writer of mystery novels. But by the time I left Hanoi, I'd landed a job playing jazz piano in the atrium of a five-star hotel, where I had an unparalleled view of Vietnam's new elite, the corrupt and the powerful, as they came and went. “Strange Adventures in the Ivory Trade” is the story of what I saw from behind my baby grand, sometimes comic, occasionally grotesque. How I rediscovered the joys of the piano in an unlikely corner of the globe, among bar girls and expats, Buddhist monks and fat cats, in a country that for my generation still summons the ghosts of war.
Title: Strange Adventures in the Ivory Trade
Sales Rank: 1519133 in Books
Author: Robert Westbrook
Publisher: Amazon, 2006-09-30, Digital, 39 pages
