"Let's not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." – Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good...Osborne has be...

From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense  Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-...

His prose has a pleasing, gentle flow, with eddies of humor and yeastiness; Osborne displays a hungry mind....He takes the showboats down a peg, but he isn't a self-conscious iconoclast, just an odd fellow looking for a mouthful of ha...