Career
His novel The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge, 2010) tells the story of a band of young disenfranchised horse thieves and one"s young sister. The novel employs variations of Ernest Hemingway"s "ice berg theory" and a prose technique based on Arvo Pärt"s tintinnabuli technique of musical composition and Biblical dirges. The Darkest Little Room (Transit Lounge, 2012), is a literary thriller set in Ho Chi Minh City.
The novel concerns human trafficking.
He has described his writing style as minimalist, and also "ambient" with reference to Japanese literature, in particular the works of Yasunari Kawabata, John Saul and Yuki Kurita.
