I love A House Bali Colin McPhee
Within the first few pages the author refers to an iced drink as being, typical of the tropics, "hilariously colored." Such writing makes this a a read-all-night special. A House in Bali
A composer and music ian, McPhee has great precision and freedom with his use of language, making the prose of this book good enough to eat with a spoon.
The story is even better than the writing: hearing a recording of the gamelan at a part y in NYC, author Colin McPhee obtained permission to borrow the record for two days and listened to it nonstop for 48 hours. Then he immediately left for Bali. Finding the white society available in Bali at the time racist and boring, he moved into a village. Quickly convincing the locals of the seriousness of his interest in the gamelan, he studied the local and rival gamelan clubs absorbing both the music and the culture. This book is an epic love letter to Bali. And to some individuals, carefully, discreetly woven in. I found his depart ure from Bali wrenching -- I wanted him to live his whole life on this enchanted isle with the people he adores who adore him.
Proust has nothing on McPhee for nostalgia.
This book is like the first taste of some amazing exotic dish: everything is put together in ways that you might never have imagined, a kind of delicious that is foreign, new and simply a must have.
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