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form y Traps single work film/TV romance

Adaptation of Dreamhouse Kate Grenville , 1986 single work novel

Authors:agent Robert Carter , Pauline Chan .

Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Traps

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In 1950, English couple Louise and Michael arrive in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a rubber plantation. They stay as guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer Daniel and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Hoping that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage, Michael and Louise instead find themselves unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual, and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict not only with his daughter but also with his adopted country.

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Out of Context : Transplanted Characters in Pauline Chan's Traps Shirley Tucker , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rubicon , vol. 1 no. 2 1995; (p. 78-89)