The Scarlet Macaw

The Scarlet Macaw was first published in 2013, by Dundurn Press, in Canada. Monsoon Books has just brought out an edition for Asian markets. The novel is in a long tradition of fiction by Westerners familiar with Asia, and set in Asia, but including few Asian characters. It often alludes to Somerset Maugham's stylish, and sometimes cruel, short stories documenting the lives of colonial-era Britons struggling in foreign lands.