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A great, strange, essentially philosophic novel published in 1935. The Asiatics, Prokosch's first novel, is the story of a young man who bums his way from Beirut to China via Greece, Turkey, Syria, southern Russia, Iran, India, and Southeast Asia. Prokosch is a master at evoking the feeling of places and peoples with extraordinary characters from crooks to rajas.