Our Evenings

The word languid must have been created to describe this novel. Exquisitely and sensually written, the narrator takes a long, slow look back on his life. Coming of age in England at the time when being gay became legal, Dave is an avant garde theater actor who is of mixed Burmese and English birth. He struggles to find his place in a world that often condescends to his racial, sexual, and class origins, but he is not beaten back by it. He accepts his circumstances with a graceful imperturbability and takes comfort where he can.