Villa Meçhul

"It was reported that Tanuki descended from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute." Think about it once, what kind of a dream world does a novel that starts with this sentence invite the reader to? And who knows, what else will emerge after such a ridiculous, vulgar, surprising and disgusting image?
This timeless yet contemporary novel by Tom Robbins already pushes the limits in the characters it creates: The colorful story of Far Eastern mythology. Tanuki, a half-god and half-animal with a huge belly and genital organs, who seduces women by changing disguises; A beautiful circus acrobat of Asian origin, rumored to be of Tanuki blood; Three American soldiers, who willingly "lost" themselves after the Vietnam War and live in an old French villa deep in Laos, appear in the novel with their most incredible, most surprising and most attractive aspects. Their own ingenuity, mystery, skill and incompetence direct the novel.
Three friends of our heroes, former soldiers, manufacture and market drugs to make a living, feed their concubines and carry out charity activities. However, all balances are shaken when one of them, disguised as a priest, is caught with drug packages wrapped around his body. Events develop rapidly with the involvement of the CIA, families of missing soldiers, local police and many other elements...
In his novels of extraordinary richness and beauty, especially The Dance of Perfume, he uses sexuality as a dagger that stabs the heart of militarism, conservatism and self-interest, but never Tom Robbins, one of the rare writers who does not focus on sex itself, does not mislead his fans in this novel either. Rich imagination invites the reader to break taboos while entertaining him.



Number of Pages: 256

Print Year: 2009


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Yayınlari

Number of Pages: 256