Tea of Ulaanbaatar

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Christopher R Howard

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

We expect this second book by emerging writer Christopher Howard to contribute to his status as a bold new voice in literary fiction.

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard's debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious ""blood tea"" that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans-or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind-as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him. With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel's satiric bite, William Burroughs's dark historical reimagining, and a lush literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark side of globalization, and middle-class nightmares-and announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists.

By: Christopher R Howard
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9781609800864
ISBN 10: 1609800869
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

After an adolescence spent in Illinois and Missouri, Christopher Howard set off with the Peace Corps for Mongolia in the late 1990s, before returning home with a severe case of giardiasis. His short story ""How to Make Millions in the Oil Market,"" published in McSweeney's and inspired by his time abroad, was nominated for the 2008 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Along with Jodi Picoult, he was one of two authors selected to provide a short story for the launch of Amazon Singles in January 2011. Howard lives in Illinois.

Reviews for Tea of Ulaanbaatar

With Tea of Ulaanbataar , Chris Howard takes to a rarely seen corner of the world, and then takes us further, into a spooky, trippy, gritty realm that is entirely his own. --Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's