Kingdom of Monkeys

Charting the steamy jungles and murky depths of the South Seas, these stories dip into the lives of a Malay boy in 19th century Singapore, a Dutch painter in wartime Bali, and an opium-smoking porter in northern Thailand. In a brilliant reworking of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the closing novella tracks a martyr to his lair and reveals Kurtz alive and well and living among us. Cunningly exposing the tattered vestiges of colonial power in Asia, Schroeder reinvents the exotic, the exquisite, and the exiled. "Schroeder has a light, lucid touch; he resists ... heavy-handed condemnation of Western consumerism and ... goggle-eyed promotion of Eastern mysticism." -- Quill & Quire (Starred Review) "The texture and scents and colors -- the otherness -- of Indonesia, the Philippines, even 19th-century Singapore, shimmer on the page." -- Globe and MailSchroeder, Adam Lewis is the author of 'Kingdom of Monkeys' with ISBN 9781551924045 and ISBN 1551924048.