Platform

Set in

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  Patong Beach · Thailand

  Thai beach resort central to the novel's sex tourism arc; Michel describes the two-kilometre seafront
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• Paris · France

  Paris where civil servant Michel Renault lives and begins a passionate affair with travel agent Valérie after meeting he
• Thailand · Thailand

  Thailand where Michel travels as a sex tourist after his father's death, meeting Valérie; the novel's sex tourism ventur