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| Author | : Alec Waugh |
| Publisher | : Eland Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
| ISBN | : 9780955010521 |
In Bangkok, Alec Waugh has created the most fluent, truthful and affectionate portrait not only of the city, but also of the dynasty and culture which created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery, he unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions and counter-coups of three hundred years of history as if it were this evening's street gossip. This loving description of the genius, fascination and enduring vitality of Thailand is told with Waugh's customary delight in life and sensual appreciation. The story is brought up-to-date with an afterword by Bruce Palling, former Times correspondent in Thailand.
| Author | : Pitchaya Sudbanthad |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525534768 |
"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Claudio Sopranzetti |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
| ISBN | : 1487526415 |
The English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010. Based on a decade of anthropological research, The King of Bangkok is a story of migration to the city, distant families in the countryside, economic development eroding the land, and violent political protest. Ultimately, it is a story about contemporary Thailand and how the waves of history lift, engulf, and crash against ordinary people.
| Author | : Kenneth Barrett |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2014-02-18 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1462913806 |
| Author | : Lawrence Osborne |
| Publisher | : North Point Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2009-05-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429957328 |
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 | : James Newman |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1445744880 |
| Author | : Alex Kerr |
| Publisher | : River Books Press Dist A C |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
| ISBN | : 9789749863923 |
Does Bangkok have a centre? How would you classify that Thai smile you just received by height and angle? What do the flames and curlicues of Thai design have in common with conch shells and cactus? After shopping, nightlife, and temples, you start to wonder where the appeal of Bangkok really lies. Sequel to Alex Carr's award-winning Lost Japan, Bangkok Found takes you on a journey to the origin in this series of meditations on the city. With wit and a wealth of anecdotes from thirty years experience in Bangkok, Alex probes beneath the surface, as he moves from being a shopper to a shop owner, and from an island-hopper to an island developer. He relives the myth of old Bangkok, watching masked dancers perform by moonlight at his old teak house, only to find that modern artists are also creating a mystical new city based on cultural fashion. AUTHOR: Alex Kerr is a writer and world renowned expert on Japanese culture and art. Born in America in 1952 he studied Japanese Studies at Yale University and Chinese Studies at Oxford University. He has lived in Japan and Thailand since the early 1970's. He is also the author of award-winning Lost Japan 1994, Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan 2002, and Living in Japan 2006. SELLING POINTS Sequel to Alex Kerr's award-winning Lost Japan, this publication is sure to be equally successful Cover images contributed by renowned Thai artists Navin Rawanchaikul and Thongchai Srisukprasert 85 b/w illustrations
| Author | : John Burdett |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2003-06-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1400040914 |
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
| Author | : Alec Waugh |
| Publisher | : W.H. Allen |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to the Thais as 'the city of angels', but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery. Waugh unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions, and counter-coups of two hundred years of history as if they were this evening's gossip. This description of the genius, fascination, and enduring vitality of Bangkok is told with Waugh's customary delight in life and sensual appreciation.
| Author | : Jon Cole |
| Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2012-01-16 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 9814358339 |
It is 1967 Bangkok and teenager Jon Cole, son of a US Green Beret colonel serving in Vietnam, is coming of age in Thailand. Drawn to the underbelly of Bangkok by GIs on R&R from Vietnam, the army brat soon discovers ganja and opium, which leads to a career as an international drug smuggler and jail time inside Bangkok’s notorious prison, the “Bangkok Hilton”. A memoir of an American smuggler spanning four decades
