The Beach by Alex Garland

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Late at night in a seedy hotel Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach an island Garden of Eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park The next morning Richard finds a map pinned to his door and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists The challenge is irresistible and Richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of Shangri-La --> Genre: Thriller Action

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Listing TypeGallery Listing
Listing ID#230559136
Start TimeThu 26 Jun 2025 11:36:33 (EDT)
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Title
The Beach
ISBN
9780140258417
Product Category
Books
Format
Hardback
Author
Alex Garland
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
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Release Year
1997
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The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is a subject of legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden. Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck - the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man - and by his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents.

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