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Monsoon Country

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Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon CountryNEW 2022 EDITIONIt is hard to overstate the impact that Pira's Monsoon Country had on the outside world when it was first published in 1988. Regarded as a classic by many, yet is was classic in a genre of just one novel.Pira Sudham and Monsoon Country are close to unique in so many ways. He wrote in the English and never published novels or short stories ... Read more

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Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon CountryNEW 2022 EDITIONIt is hard to overstate the impact that Pira's Monsoon Country had on the outside world when it was first published in 1988. Regarded as a classic by many, yet is was classic in a genre of just one novel.Pira Sudham and Monsoon Country are close to unique in so many ways. He wrote in the English and never published novels or short stories
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Escape to Australia

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This fictional short story is Thai author Pira Sudham's thank you to Australia for offering asylum to Thais fleeing the military massacres of students in 1973 and later. Pira's eyesight is now declining and he finds it extremely hard to write anymore. Some of those who helped him in Western Australia and New South Wales are praised in the story.Pira describes the story this way. Escape to ... Read more

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This fictional short story is Thai author Pira Sudham's thank you to Australia for offering asylum to Thais fleeing the military massacres of students in 1973 and later. Pira's eyesight is now declining and he finds it extremely hard to write anymore. Some of those who helped him in Western Australia and New South Wales are praised in the story.Pira describes the story this way. Escape to
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It is the People: of Thailand and Other Countries

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Thailand's premier author in the English language, Pira Sudham, is for the first time published in the ebook format. Best known for his novel Monsoon Country, this is an anthology of his short stories previously published in Tales of Thailand and People of Esarn. Who else could write about peasant life in Thailand's poorest region apart from someone who had been born and bought up in that life? In ... Read more

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Thailand's premier author in the English language, Pira Sudham, is for the first time published in the ebook format. Best known for his novel Monsoon Country, this is an anthology of his short stories previously published in Tales of Thailand and People of Esarn. Who else could write about peasant life in Thailand's poorest region apart from someone who had been born and bought up in that life? In
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Pira Sudham’s Last Three Stories

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Pira Sudham added three more short stories to his writing output. Now living in the village in Northeast Thailand where he was born, he says these will be the last work he does. The stories are Operation Mopping Up, A War on of Streets of Bangkok and To Australia and Back.At the age of 14, Pira Sudham left his home village in the northeastern region of Thailand to be a servant to monks at a ... Read more

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Pira Sudham added three more short stories to his writing output. Now living in the village in Northeast Thailand where he was born, he says these will be the last work he does. The stories are Operation Mopping Up, A War on of Streets of Bangkok and To Australia and Back.At the age of 14, Pira Sudham left his home village in the northeastern region of Thailand to be a servant to monks at a
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The Force of Karma

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THE FORCE OF KARMAThe sequel to Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon CountryA new edition of the 2002 The Force of KarmaPira added additional last chapter in 2022 bringing the historical saga up-to-date. When the Red Shirts demonstrated in support of Thaksin Shinawatra the one sure outcome was that it wouldn't be the politicians, army generals or university professors who would be killed. That job ... Read more

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THE FORCE OF KARMAThe sequel to Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon CountryA new edition of the 2002 The Force of KarmaPira added additional last chapter in 2022 bringing the historical saga up-to-date. When the Red Shirts demonstrated in support of Thaksin Shinawatra the one sure outcome was that it wouldn't be the politicians, army generals or university professors who would be killed. That job
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Wild Coast

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Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an ... Read more

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Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an
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I Never Knew There Was a Word For It

by Adam Jacot de Boinod ...

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book!This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam ... Read more

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From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book!This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam
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Ghosts

A Thai novel

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Series series THAI MODERN CLASSICS
Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields,has his work cut out for him helping his farming relativesand convincing his lover's aristocratic parentsthat he deserves her hand.This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai societyis widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand. ... Read more

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Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields,has his work cut out for him helping his farming relativesand convincing his lover's aristocratic parentsthat he deserves her hand.This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai societyis widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand.
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The white shadow

Portrait of the artist as a young rascal

by Saneh Sangsuk ...

The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece ... Read more

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The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece
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A Raindrop in the Ocean

The Extraordinary Life of a Global Adventurer

by Michael Dobbs-Higginson ...

A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his grueling ... Read more

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A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his grueling
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Transit of Venus

Travels in the Pacific

by Julian Evans ...

With the potent myths of the Pacific Ocean in mind, Julian Evans journeys ever deeper into a world of gin-clear lagoons, palms and sand, in search of both remnants of the fabulous kingdoms of the nineteenth-century European imagination -fed by an abundance of fruits, fish and guilt-free sex -and their twentieth century reality. Ever since Captain Cook first went to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the ... Read more

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With the potent myths of the Pacific Ocean in mind, Julian Evans journeys ever deeper into a world of gin-clear lagoons, palms and sand, in search of both remnants of the fabulous kingdoms of the nineteenth-century European imagination -fed by an abundance of fruits, fish and guilt-free sex -and their twentieth century reality. Ever since Captain Cook first went to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the
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Sadri Returns to Bali

A Tale of the Balinese Galungan Festival

by Elisabeth Waldmeier ...

Translated by Susan Tuttle-Laube ...

With beautiful illustrations done in the traditional Balinese style, this multicultural children's book celebrates an important Balinese festival.The Galungan festival in Bali marks the victory of dharma (order) over adharma (disorder). It is celebrated by the Balinese Hindus, who believe that during these ten days of prayers, offerings, and feasting, their revered ancestors return to their former ... Read more

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With beautiful illustrations done in the traditional Balinese style, this multicultural children's book celebrates an important Balinese festival.The Galungan festival in Bali marks the victory of dharma (order) over adharma (disorder). It is celebrated by the Balinese Hindus, who believe that during these ten days of prayers, offerings, and feasting, their revered ancestors return to their former
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