![]() ![]() Twenty-something Daniel, conversely, speaks Mandarin fluently and is popular with his students, especially enthusiastic Bella. He has neither the passion nor affinity for teaching but persists halfheartedly-between bouts of drunkenness. Thomas Guillard, a Minnesotan in his 60s, arrives in Ningyuan to work at an English language school. Carroll’s plot follows the uneasy relationship between two men, one older and jaded, the other young and idealistic. But the greatest debt is to Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. Somerset Maugham and Paul Bowles evoke two precedents for this contemplative work on being a purposeless outsider. ![]() Carroll’s debut novel, a character study of two Americans teaching English in rural China, gracefully contrasts idealism and cynicism.Įpigraphs from W. ![]()
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