The Last Puppet Master
Stephen
RogersISBN: 962-7160-97-0
Dimensions: 208 pp, 201 x 140 mm
Price: HK$138/US$18
"Stephen Rogers writes
with an insider’s knowledge.... Rogers
deftly catches that peculiar feel of Jakarta, which anyone who has
lived there will instantly recognize. The atmosphere of tension during
the riots is almost palpable, as is the sense of loss that follows.
This book which will take its place beside A Year Of Living
Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch as a portrait of its place and
time."
Christopher
New
author of Shanghai
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The arrogant actions of one man are destined to change Indonesia
forever. British journalist David Collins and his fellow characters
must struggle to make sense of the crisis as their world is caught in
a vortex of greed, decadence and death. The Last Puppet Master
is historical fiction at its best, a picaresque tale of ordinary
people living in extraordinary times. The
collapse of the Suharto regime after thirty-two years of despotic rule
was the most momentous event to have occurred in South East Asia since
the end of the Vietnam War. Irish writer Stephen Rogers, a long term
resident of Jakarta, has given us a novel, set in that moment, which
will last.
Critics Comments
"Stephen Rogers writes with
an insider’s knowledge, vividly capturing the last days of the Suharto
regime through the eyes of high-living expatriates and their
hangers-on, humble Javanese, politicians, students and the Indonesian
Chinese who are inevitably the victims when things go wrong. Rogers
deftly catches that peculiar feel of Jakarta, which anyone who has
lived there will instantly recognize. The atmosphere of tension during
the riots is almost palpable, as is the sense of loss that follows.
This book which will take its place beside A Year Of Living
Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch as a portrait of its place and
time."
Christopher
New
author of the New York Times Best-Seller
Shanghai
Readers Comments
Extract
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Rogers
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