The 13-year-old son of a fanatical father tells the story of his family’s journey from the New England suburbs to the Honduran jungle. Abominating what he sees as the decadence and horror of the 20th century, Allie Fox abandons ...

Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them - until the mysterious Mr. Hung from the mainland offers them a large s...

From the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit...

"[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A."—Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Ho...

This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition,hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westernersrisk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths todiscover woe or truth or peace. A middl...

Paul Theroux revolutionized travel writing with his 1975 book THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, a stirring and very personal account of his travels by railway from London to Tokyo and back. Choosing to go by train, alone, and with minimal gea...

The narrator of Theroux's novel, a failed writer, manages a rundown hotel in Hawaii for a flamboyant character named Buddy Hamstra. The hotel--and in fact the entire city--seems to be people entirely by eccentrics, including a lawyer ...

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 'a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond.' The book sp...

When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is...

Like his creator, Paul Theroux, the hero of BLINDING LIGHT, Slade Steadman, became famous for a best-selling travel book. In Theroux’s case it was THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, in Steadman’s it’s TRESPASSING, a book abou...

Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, wit...

"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review  To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children...

As he travels around the coast of Great Britain, the author of The Mosquito Coast provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a gre...