by John Ralston Saul · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422627685
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«El goce del paraíso» is the thriller by John Ralston Saul, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (325 pages, in Spanish).
In 1980s Bangkok, John Field, an alcoholic businessman and journalist, moves through a world of prostitution, drugs, murders and political intrigue. The violent death of his former lover and her husband drags him into a tangle of opium and corruption from which he cannot escape.
Third instalment of the Field Trilogy, originally published as «Paradise Eater» in 1988; translated by Enric Tremps.
For readers of contemporary fiction and crime novels, with a plot of corruption and crime in Southeast Asia.
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and critiques of the prevailing economic paradigm. He is a champion of freedom of expression and was the International President of PEN International, an association of writers. Saul is the co-founder and co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a national charity promoting the inclusion of new citizens. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of 6 Degrees, the global forum for inclusion. Saul is also the husband to the former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, making him the Viceregal consort of Canada during most of her service (1999–2005).
