Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Jalan Jalan: Winner of the Guardian's self-published book of the month 'Tender and accomplished, funny and sad...a very impressive (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798746434463)
Vendor:
Mike Stoner
Product type:
Books
- $12.99
$12.99- $12.99
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$12.99
Description
xWinner of the Guardian Self-published Book of the Month.
A story of travel, loss, reinvention, a little quantum physics and a persistent dead girlfriend.
Newbie travels to Indonesia to reinvent himself and forget his past. His girlfriend has died and he wants no more painful reminders, no more memories, no more missing her. The trouble is, she's followed him there.
Club-land bosses, prostitutes, shaman, damaged expats, they all help with his reinvention. The local mushrooms, jungle grass, and the dead girlfriend who turns up when she pleases, all push him to the edge of madness. A story of travel, loss, split personalities and ghosts. All mixed in with a little shaman magic, time-bending, and the best coffee in the world.
This story of a quest for salvation in an exotic foreign land will appeal to fans of Alex Garland's The Beach, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. The title of the book comes from the Indonesian phrase jalan jalan ("walk walk") which one of the characters describes as: "Just fu$&ing walking man. Out for a stroll." To Newbie, whose real name is never revealed until the book's final page, the phrase aptly sums up the emotional detachment he seeks. Yet despite himself, he cannot help being transformed by his new experiences.
"Raw, confrontational and aimed directly at anyone who has decided to take a hike from life, hide out for a while and reinvent who you are in another culture, it lays bare the vulnerability of the human psyche...Not for the fainthearted, this will take you on a journey which will be hard to forget, will hit deep and will, providing you enjoy this hard hitting style of writing, keep you entertained to the last page as you struggle, with Newbie, to discover just what life is really all about."
―Blue Wolf Reviews
Author: Mike Stoner
ISBN-10: 8746434461
ISBN-13: 9798746434463
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2021
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.74d
A story of travel, loss, reinvention, a little quantum physics and a persistent dead girlfriend.
Newbie travels to Indonesia to reinvent himself and forget his past. His girlfriend has died and he wants no more painful reminders, no more memories, no more missing her. The trouble is, she's followed him there.
Club-land bosses, prostitutes, shaman, damaged expats, they all help with his reinvention. The local mushrooms, jungle grass, and the dead girlfriend who turns up when she pleases, all push him to the edge of madness. A story of travel, loss, split personalities and ghosts. All mixed in with a little shaman magic, time-bending, and the best coffee in the world.
This story of a quest for salvation in an exotic foreign land will appeal to fans of Alex Garland's The Beach, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. The title of the book comes from the Indonesian phrase jalan jalan ("walk walk") which one of the characters describes as: "Just fu$&ing walking man. Out for a stroll." To Newbie, whose real name is never revealed until the book's final page, the phrase aptly sums up the emotional detachment he seeks. Yet despite himself, he cannot help being transformed by his new experiences.
"Raw, confrontational and aimed directly at anyone who has decided to take a hike from life, hide out for a while and reinvent who you are in another culture, it lays bare the vulnerability of the human psyche...Not for the fainthearted, this will take you on a journey which will be hard to forget, will hit deep and will, providing you enjoy this hard hitting style of writing, keep you entertained to the last page as you struggle, with Newbie, to discover just what life is really all about."
―Blue Wolf Reviews
Author: Mike Stoner
ISBN-10: 8746434461
ISBN-13: 9798746434463
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2021
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.74d
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.