Best of Southeast Asian Erotica

Richard Lord (ed)

This is the follow-up volume to Monsoon’s bestselling Best of Singapore Erotica. This time around, there are 19 stories from well-known authors in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.

Traipsing through the pages of this steamy collection is a colourful cavalcade of adventurers, maids, masseurs, prostitutes, transsexuals, seducers and seducees as well as business executives on the make. You’ll even meet a master baker who reveals the deeply erotic secrets of prata-making, along with the married couple who uncover the secret of how fermented durian can reignite the sparks of marital bliss.

Included in this volume are two of Thailand’s most renowned English-language writers, Stephen Leather and John Burdett, celebrated Malaysian film-maker Amir Muhammad and Malaysia’s rising-star journalist/blogger Amirul Ruslan. Amongst the strong Singapore contingent are stories by highly popular writers Dawn Farnham and Chris Mooney-Singh, and there are also three alluring stories from the Philippines and one from Indonesia.

This book proves that erotic literature can stand out as both eroticism and literature. The nineteen stories presented here examine the topic from varied angles, but they all celebrate the sensual in the sure voice of first-rate writing. Best of Southeast Asian Erotica is a welcome and rich addition to the growing list of erotic literature in this most erotic corner of the world.