Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard

First edition. 8vo. 286, [2] pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed and dated by the Author on the title page. Additionally stamped with his red "chop" Chinese signature.

Author's fifth novel. Self-published by Mo in a hardback print run of less than a thousand, most of which ended up in public libraries. A Swiftian, scatological satire on corruption in the Philippines financed by a complicit West.

Omitted from the 1983 Granta Best Young Writers list, Mo rapidly out-performed most of his rivals with a 75% Booker prize short-list hit-rate from his first four novels. "Fiercely truthful, intensely funny. The novel brilliantly continues Mo's fictional enterprise." –Peter Kemp, Sunday Times