The Indies at the end of the XIXth century. Above the river, amid the huts that are linked by bamboo footbridges, swarms a miserable people that live from what they find. It is there, between heaven and water that the young Frenchman Ernest meets Kaliani, a beautiful Indian prostitute. And it is there, in the empire of a grimacing jade figure, that strange events will take place… Completed with an introduction giving unpublished texts and sketches, this complete edition constitutes the definitive edition of ‘Piège Malais’.