ARGONAUT BOOKS

Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish-Arab from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to attend university. He is in pursuit of a romantic gay dream, desperate to escape the conservative clutches of his childhood United States. When he arrives in Beijing, he is hurled into dilemmas, harassed by shadowy characters and forced to confront a strange new life in this foreign city. All the while a disturbing murder mystery is unfolding in the halls of the university's most curious building. 'Building 46' draws its reader into the darkest, quietest spaces of China's vast capital. Set just before the 2008 Beijing ...Read More