“However, and despite all of my preconceptions, inside of me, hidden in some out-of-the-way site of my contradictory psyche, lived an unspeakable attraction to depravity, a dirty desire to roll around in the filth until the stench seeped into each and every one of my pores. Like a Catholic teenager dealing with his first erections, I couldn’t accept the fact that, deep down, that carnal, animalistic desire for the forbidden was part of me; something innate to my identity, my existence. But that disconcerting yearning was there, lurking in some corner of my mind, like when you find yourself involuntarily moving to the beat of that song you always thought you hated.”
Combining travel literature with gonzo journalism, Alberto Mayor takes us on a physical and emotional journey from the packed streets of Hong Kong to the idyllic islands off Cambodia’s southern coast.
