A Woman Of Bangkok

Author : Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814358622
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Bangkok written by Jack Reynolds and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature’s long line of brazen working girls

Author : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525534768
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Wakes to Rain written by Pitchaya Sudbanthad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Iris Mitlin Lav
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631527088
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wife in Bangkok written by Iris Mitlin Lav and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Crystal’s husband, Brian, suddenly announces that his company is sending him to manage its Bangkok office and that he expects her and their children to come along, she reluctantly acquiesces. She doesn’t want to leave the job she loves and everything familiar in their small Oklahoma town; it’s 1975, however, and Crystal, a woman with traditional values, feels she has to be a good wife and follow her husband. Crystal finds beauty in Thailand, but also isolation and betrayal. Fighting intense loneliness and buffeted by a series frightening and shocking events, she struggles to adapt to a very different culture and battle a severe depression—and, ultimately, decide whether her broken relationship with her husband is worth saving.

Author : Jacqueline Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780373821105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autumn in Bangkok written by Jacqueline Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scot Barmé
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman, Man, Bangkok written by Scot Barmé and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural transformation that had a profound impact on the development of Thai modernity. This book examines the growth of a polyphonous and often vociferous Thai public, a public that used a range of new media outlets to express themselves and clamor for a more just and equitable social order. Scot Barmé mines a rich lode of previously ignored cultural ephemera found in popular newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, film booklets, and cartoons to create a vibrant cultural history of early modern Thailand that moves beyond conventional, elite-based historical studies of the period. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms, and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand.

Author : John Burdett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1400040914
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bangkok 8 written by John Burdett and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345211125
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman of Bangkok written by Jack Reynolds and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1968-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Hopkins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900038
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Babylon written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters. In 25 vivid profiles, Hopkins explores what motivates people to leave home and the unforeseen adventures that can befall them once abroad. Hopkin's knack for the biography is evident in his coverage of individuals ranging from famous performers to ordinary businesspeople. The 25 true stories include the lives of: The Real Colonel Kurtz? --An American soldier who allegedly was the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. The Oscar Winner --An acclaimed screenwriter who moves to the city of Bangkok to die. Urban Gorilla Priest --A Catholic priest who founded Mercy Centre in one of the city's harshest slums. The Odd Couple -- A circus clown turned computer programmer turned restaurateur. Professor Elephant-- A documentary filmmaker living with elephants. All of these individuals "escaped" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities. Bangkok Babylon shares their exciting true stories, many of which are stranger than fiction.

Author : Chris Berry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Filmmaker and the Prostitute written by Chris Berry and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis O'Rourke's The Good Woman of Bangkok This collection offers a comprehensive coverage of the debates surrounding Dennis O'Rourke's controversial film. It brings together newspaper and journal reviews together with theoretical essays. Like a crystal, THE GOOD WOMAN OF BANGKOK refracts currents of contemporary thinking - on alterity, feminism, postcoloniality and globalisation.

Author : Janet Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 1934159123
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tone Deaf in Bangkok written by Janet Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her first bewildered hours to the moment that she reluctantly leaves, Janet Brown describes her experience of falling in love withand inThailands largest city. Short, absorbing personal essays give a frank and intimate view of Bangkok, taking readers away from the typical tourist scene and describing what it is like to live a Thai life in a foreign body. Nana Chens evocative photographs provide illustrations of daily living in Bangkok with images that go behind the postcards to a world that travelers rarely see.