In these stories of unease, readers will find an ailing son trying to rewrite his father’s ignoble death, a Seoul taxi driver who succumbs to a devil’s plan, a park that offers one man redemption, and another, King George’s in Hong Kong, that haunts its one-time visitor.Throughout these tales a pan-Asian modernity has East and West entwined and restless for meaning in a vision seldom presented by popular culture. Here lies a hand on the sleeping violence of urban globalized living.