The author's reminiscences of his time living in Bali in the 1930s. It felt disjointed rather than a connected narrative, and although richly descriptive, I found it difficult to pin down the soundscape he was obviously impressed by beyond my own memories of Balinese gamelan in the 1980s and 1990s, which is probably not the way it sounded in the 1930s. A pity there couldn't be an accompanying soundtrack.