The Best Worst Novel Ever; Marlon Brando's Seriously Fucked Up 'Fan-Tan'

The Stranger | December 22, 2005| | Copyright

IDLY FLIPPING THROUGH Fan-Tan, I came across the line "Untruth was a violin on which he played like a Paganini of bunkum." I blinked twice, checked the spine of the book to make sure that it was published by Knopf, and then turned further in: "'You bitch,' he breathed in her moist ear." I was enchanted. Fan-Tan's protagonist is Annie Doultry, a 1920s South Pacific sailor and smuggler, and when we first meet him, he is in prison, sprinkling his body with bait, trying to attract a cockroach. Annie quickly earns his freedom and begins reconnecting to Hong Kong's underbelly, visiting Yummee, a ...

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