Stan Lauryssens: Crime Writer

Coming soon: A CURRY AT NIGHT AND SEX ON SUNDAY

A Kama Sutra Memoir
by Stan Lauryssens

A bright, sunny day in Barcelona. My eyes were glued to the dark-skinned woman. In her left hand, she held a yellow straw hat with a wide brim. Though I only saw her from a distance, she had the most sensuous mouth and the longest and blackest hair I’d ever seen, shiny like coal and cascading over her shoulders all the way down to her slender hips.
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“You’re not English, are you?” I said.
“Guess.”
“Pakistani?”
“No, no,” she said and broke into a throaty laugh that lit up her chestnut brown eyes.
I threw up my hands. “I’m sorry, I give up,” I said.
“I’m from Goa,’” she said. “From India. We invented the Kama Sutra, you know.”

After living in Spain as the only neighbor of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí while on the run for Interpol, the author falls for a flirtatious woman from India and follows her to London. She initiates him in the 64 positions described in the Kama Sutra. When he runs out of money, she serves him delicious Indian curries and locks him willingly in "a male Indian chastity belt" that slices his penis whenever he gets an erection. The story recounts the author's seven years as an outcast in an Indian family in the London suburbs—dressed in an Indian sari of the finest cotton—that ends with him living in "cardboard city" under London's Waterloo Bridge, craving for spicy korma, madras, tikka masala and vindaloo curries.

I'm also working on Salvador Dalí---The Rise and Fall of a Genius, an easy-to-read fun biography that tells Dalí's life story without the abracadabra of most books on art and artists.

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