Lorenzo was sailing towards the Orient. Hardly had the ship neared Port Said when the younger and more extravagant officers inaugurated a mad scene of freedom and folly. They spoke to him of strange copulations between women and donkeys, or of the easy exhibitionism on the part of Arabs, of their prowess in love.'
So begins the story of Lorenzo's extraordinary adventures in a world which knows none of the restrictions and inhibitions of ours. It is an oriental odyssey which to occidental minds must seem strange and incredible.
Here is the cloying mystery of China: opulence and opium dens, squalor and splendour, a brush with bandits. ' "How strange this China", he said. "At the very moment that it enchants you to love her, suddenly she reveals herself as hostile and nauseating" Here is the ever-smiling, enigmatic, painstaking com-plaisance of the Japanese: 'The girl smiled and after removing his jacket, little by little she undressed him completely, with great delicacy, and with extreme care she put away all his clothes in a closet....
Giovanni Comisso, whom we are proud to introduce to our readers, formerly wrote for leading Italian newspapers and he has the journalist's trained eye for detail and for the essential in description and narrative. He takes us with him far beyond his native Italy to the Far East and we are transported, by the magic of his busy pen, to erotic haunts in India, Malaya, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
His talent as a writer is attested by his having won Italy's highest literary award. In this English version of his fascinating exotic adventures the thrill and charm of the original has been ably preserved.
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