
Set in the imaginary Far Eastern holy city of Malomba,the city of 37 different religins. The Bell Boy is the story of the bohemian Hemony family and Laki, the shrewd and winning bell-boy of the title. The tragi-comic story of their mutual exploitation involves financial extortion and psychic surgery.Beautifully written, the novel is alive with the sights, sounds and scents of the East, and the juxtapositions between and mutual expectations of Eastern and Western cultures.