Author: Garland, Alex
Library Edition; 8 cassettes; Audio Product ~ Analog Audio Cassette
Published: January 1997
Brilliance Audio
ISBN: 1561008176

Richard, a young Westerner traveling in Southeast Asia, is bequeathed a map to the Beach by a fellow traveler who slashes his wrists. The Beach is a subject of legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for thousands of years. A select international few have settled intoa communal Eden. Although it is as beautiful as it is reputed to be, it becomes clear that the Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly undercurrents.