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Author: Steve Rosse Publisher: ISBN: 9781679437823 Category : Languages : en Pages : 246
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Praise for Steve Rosse's previous books: "As good as any writer I have read on the expatriate experience." David Lida - author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century "Wistful, laugh-out-loud funny, and unsparingly honest." Janet Brown, author of "Tone Deaf in Bangkok." "Poignant, ironic, heartbreakingly sad, savagely funny." James Eckardt, author of "Waylaid by the Bimbos." "There's some humor in all of this and a bit of savvy." Bernard Trink in The Bangkok Post "A keen eye for the foibles of both expats and Thais." Joe Cummings, author of "Lonely Planet Thailand" "Touching, insightful and humorous... consistently the best I have ever read." Jerry Hopkins, author of "Thailand Confidential" "A pleasing blend of humor and shrewd comment." Roger Crutchley in the Bangkok Post "The writing is crisp and light. An enjoyable read." Stickmanbangkok.com "A very observant and keenly descriptive writer." The Chiang Mai Mail "His stories have the rare ring of truth and some of them have the added bonus of being very funny." William Warren, author of "Jim Thompson, the Unsolved Mystery"
Author: Steve Rosse Publisher: ISBN: 9781679437823 Category : Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Praise for Steve Rosse's previous books: "As good as any writer I have read on the expatriate experience." David Lida - author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century "Wistful, laugh-out-loud funny, and unsparingly honest." Janet Brown, author of "Tone Deaf in Bangkok." "Poignant, ironic, heartbreakingly sad, savagely funny." James Eckardt, author of "Waylaid by the Bimbos." "There's some humor in all of this and a bit of savvy." Bernard Trink in The Bangkok Post "A keen eye for the foibles of both expats and Thais." Joe Cummings, author of "Lonely Planet Thailand" "Touching, insightful and humorous... consistently the best I have ever read." Jerry Hopkins, author of "Thailand Confidential" "A pleasing blend of humor and shrewd comment." Roger Crutchley in the Bangkok Post "The writing is crisp and light. An enjoyable read." Stickmanbangkok.com "A very observant and keenly descriptive writer." The Chiang Mai Mail "His stories have the rare ring of truth and some of them have the added bonus of being very funny." William Warren, author of "Jim Thompson, the Unsolved Mystery"
Author: Ayelet Tsabari Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 1443447889 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR MEMOIR FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home. Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away. It was not the never-ending conflict that drove her, but the grief that had shaken the foundations of her home. The loss of Tsabari’s beloved father in years past had left her alienated and exiled within her own large Yemeni family and at odds with her Mizrahi identity. By leaving, she would be free to reinvent herself and to rewrite her own story. For nearly a decade, Tsabari travelled, through India, Europe, the US and Canada, as though her life might go stagnant without perpetual motion. She moved fast and often because—as in the Intifada—it was safer to keep going than to stand still. Soon the act of leaving—jobs, friends and relationships—came to feel most like home. But a series of dramatic events forced Tsabari to examine her choices and her feelings of longing and displacement. By periodically returning to Israel, Tsabari began to examine her Jewish-Yemeni background and the Mizrahi identity she had once rejected, as well as unearthing a family history that had been untold for years. What she found resonated deeply with her own immigrant experience and struggles with new motherhood. Beautifully written, frank and poignant, The Art of Leaving is a courageous coming-of-age story that reflects on identity and belonging and that explores themes of family and home—both inherited and chosen.
Author: Bua Boonmee Publisher: Maverick House ISBN: 1905379870 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 122
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Miss Bangkok is a vivid, powerful and moving memoir of a life spent in prostitution in Thailand. Poor and uneducated, Bua Boonmee escaped an abusive marriage only to end up in the go-go bars of Patpong. There, in the notorious red-light district of Bangkok, she succumbed to prostitution in an effort to support her family. Bua’s story is one of resilience and courage in the face of abuse and poverty. Her confessions will make you laugh and cry, cringe and applaud. She will change your perception of prostitution forever.
Author: Peter Maguire Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231161344 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 274
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Thailand’s capital, Krungtep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers: from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders leftover from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade. Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Conducting hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, the delivery, the voyage home, and the product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into one of the world’s most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers’ perspective.
Author: Jerry Hopkins Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462900240 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 260
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"Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation? Of course you don't, but, happily, Jerry Hopkins has done all that and more--lots more--in this darkly humorous, deeply affectionate, clear-eyed but never patronizing portrait of Thailand, his adopted home. Highly recommended." --Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard, Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh "After over a decade in the country, Hopkins knows and loves his subject dearly--that much is obvious--and his vivid portrait projects that love from every page." --Jann Wenner, editor and founder of Rolling Stone Magazine "A loving expose of everything that's wonderful about Thailand, and much that isn't. Should be required reading for all newcomers." --Joe Cummings, author of the Lonely Planet Thailand Guide Writer Jerry Hopkins came to Thailand for a visit in the 1980s, and ended up a permanent resident with a temporary visa--a big, white farang haunting the bars and back alleys of Bangkok. His essays explore the mystery and mayhem of "The Land of Smiles" to hilarious--and sometimes disturbing--effect. Travel with him to a place where whisky is rum, water buffaloes are gay, insects are dinner, dildos are lucky charms, and your wildest adolescent fantasies can come true (for a nominal fee).
Author: H. Robert Charles Publisher: Motorbooks ISBN: 9780760328200 Category : Burma-Siam Railway Languages : en Pages : 250
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From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.
Author: Lawrence Osborne Publisher: North Point Press ISBN: 1429957328 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 283
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A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. And so the restless exile stays. Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. Bangkok Days is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world.
Author: Emmanuel Carrère Publisher: Metropolitan Books ISBN: 1429973285 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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From the acclaimed award-winning author Emmanuel Carrère, Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir is an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grand-father helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft. Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two families—shattered and ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is nothing short of a literary miracle: a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, an intimate and reverent look at the extraordinary beauty and nobility of ordinary lives. Precise, sober, and suspenseful, as full of twists and turns as any novel, Lives Other Than My Own confronts terrifying catastrophes to illuminate the astonishing richness of human connection: a grandfather who thought he had found paradise—too soon—and now devotes himself to helping his neighbors rebuild their village; a husband so in love with his ailing wife that he carries her in his arms like a knight does his princess; and finally, Carrère himself, longtime chronicler of the tormented self, who unexpectedly finds consolation and even joy as he immerses himself in the lives of others. “Moving...Carrère’s prose is precise and measured...Through interviews with friends and relatives of both families, he creates powerful portraits that celebrate ordinary lives.”—The New Yorker “You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether—a book at once more ordinary and more extraordinary than any first impressions might allow.”—The New York Times
Author: Philip Cornwel-Smith Publisher: River Books Press Dist A C ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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This pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and
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Author: Steve Rosse
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