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Download or read book Land of Smiles written by T. C. Huo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it.”—Los Angeles Times Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California.The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new life. Huo offers a glimpse into a world as highly ordered and dependent on proper observance of social customs and manners as any created by Jane Austen. Eventually Boontakone and his father make their way to America, where the young man will have to sort out impressions as dazzling and puzzling as the American high school, Superman, and Saturday Night Fever. Balancing a moving account of dislocation and loss with gentle comedy, Land of Smiles is a new classic in the literature of the immigrant experience.
Download or read book Land of Smiles written by Jess Kroll and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Torrini always knew where his life would lead, but doesn’t know if he wants to end up there. Needing an escape from a stagnant year before re-applying to law schools, Ethan follows his lifelong friend Ken to the small town of Chanthaburi, Thailand, to assist with his online gem selling business and find freedom from the inevitable march to forever. An artist at heart, Ethan is drawn to Chanthaburi’s many beauties, from the river that meanders through town to the glimmering gemstones in the nearby market and to a local woman with coconut-scented hair. For the first time, anything feels possible. Yet as a farang in a town of few foreigners, Ethan can’t comprehend the impact of his every action. A drive through town, a friendly drink with a rival seller, a dinner with a visiting English tutor, a simple pencil sketch … all have consequences that reach beyond Ethan and into the cultural, familial, traditional and financial obligations that dictate the lives around him. Even halfway around the world, there is no such thing as escape.
Download or read book Land of Smiles written by A. Maytree and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Bush and Iraq, there was Nixon and Vietnam. It's 1969. The Vietnam War has turned into a meat grinder, 250,000 protesters are marching on Washington to confront a defiant President Nixon holed up in the White House, and Alden Maytree, fresh out of Catholic seminary, has passed his pre-induction physical. Just before Uncle Sam drafts him, he gets a surprise call. Instead of killing commies in Vietnam, how about spending two years next door in exotic Thailand, the "Land of Smiles," as a Peace Corps Volunteer? But when he arrives in Bangkok, he discovers he can't escape the war and clashes with Peace Corps, the U.S. Embassy and the CIA. Land of Smiles is a memoir of one young man's coming of age during the Boomer generation's war-and the painful lessons he and America both learn as they try to save the world.
Book Synopsis Facing Challenges in the Land of Smiles by : Emilie Margaret Ballard
Download or read book Facing Challenges in the Land of Smiles written by Emilie Margaret Ballard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Verse of the hymn “How Firm a Foundation” describes the author experiences in Thailand. The challenges the author faced have driven her to pray more and seek the Lord’s guidance more earnestly and to realize more and more how God was using them to “consume the dross and refine the gold” in her life. The author was blessed to have help and guidance in working with the ethnic Karens of Burma, then Thailand, and the Karens living in the USA. God used her to help in Christian Education, Healthcare, Women’s Work, in preparation of language lessons, both for those needing to learn the language and for Karens illiterate in their own language.
Book Synopsis Ins & Outs of the Land of Smiles by : Chan Joon Yee
Download or read book Ins & Outs of the Land of Smiles written by Chan Joon Yee and published by Dewdrop Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move to Thailand? Are you crazy? Some may ask. But in reality, Thailand is an attractive place with great food, cheap medicines, first class healthcare and wellness support and lots of friendly people who really know how to enjoy life. Those who peel surface that most casual visitors and armchair travellers see will discover that Thailand is a lot more than the sex and human trafficking capital as depicted by the Western media. There are very valid reasons why perfectly decent folks are so keen on living there. But ... what happens if the keen Farang settler peels deeper under the surface of the fun and friendly Thai people? Written by author of Spellbound in Chiangmai and Understanding Thailand's Money Culture, this book takes you on a journey from fascination to infatuation, then to realization and finally disillusionment - stages that many foreigners go through when they decide to settle down in the Land of Smiles after seeing all the good things about it. Chapters in the book include: Low Cost Of Living Thai Hospitality & Tolerance Oriental Wisdom Sabai Sabai The Tough and the Geek Reality - Complacency Reality – How Calm Are They? Reality - Education Reality – Belief in Miracles Reality – The Price of Reputation The Real Thai Values Reality – Do You Know Your Rank? Reality – the Gods Themselves The Problem With Mai Pen Rai Mai Pen Rai In Reverse Farang Remain Farang Honesty & Rule of Law It Gets Even More Absurd The Truth – Distaff Attractions Stage One – Infatuation Why Thai Women? Stage Two - Discovery How The Good Girls Do It Impermanence Stage Three - Denial Or Compromise Sneaky & Superficial
Book Synopsis Come Live with Me in a Land of Smiles by : Gaetano Donizetti
Download or read book Come Live with Me in a Land of Smiles written by Gaetano Donizetti and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Smiles written by T. C. Huo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it.”—Los Angeles Times Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California.The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new life. Huo offers a glimpse into a world as highly ordered and dependent on proper observance of social customs and manners as any created by Jane Austen. Eventually Boontakone and his father make their way to America, where the young man will have to sort out impressions as dazzling and puzzling as the American high school, Superman, and Saturday Night Fever. Balancing a moving account of dislocation and loss with gentle comedy, Land of Smiles is a new classic in the literature of the immigrant experience.
Download or read book Fortune Smiles written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Thailand written by Karen Schwabach and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go inside the secret world of the elite anti-terrorist force directed by the President and drawn from the very best of the CIA, Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. History and past operations, secret training, uniforms, patches, weapons, and hi-tech equipment are all examined.
Download or read book Love on the Rocks written by Simon Los and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold-blooded Thai bargirls, naïve tourists and sordid scams – it was all in a night’s work for Pattaya bar manager Simon Los. Pouring their hearts out at the bar are a tourist who reclaims his masculinity with the help of a ladyboy, a retired financier who invests thousands in a business with a woman he meets on the streets of Pattaya, a desperate Irishman who breaks the law in his pursuit of love, a high-net-worth visitor who is traded between bargirls, and many others whose heart strings are pulled to the point of breaking. For years, British expat Simon Los worked the bars of Pattaya. Befriending Thai staff as well as western and local customers, he was privy to the dating despair – and occasional joy – of countless couples. That bargirls would go to such lengths to deceive their farang boyfriends, out of poverty or greed, was not unexpected, but Simon was also surprised to see some of his customers find true love in the Land of Smiles.
Book Synopsis Inside Thai Society by : Niels Mulder
Download or read book Inside Thai Society written by Niels Mulder and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Long Winding Road to Nakhon Nowhere by : Roger Crutchley
Download or read book The Long Winding Road to Nakhon Nowhere written by Roger Crutchley and published by Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Smiles written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Land of Smiles" is architectural photographer Chris Mottalini's quiet, meditative and surreal exploration of the built and natural landscapes of Thailand. Mottalini has spent a considerable amount of time in Thailand over the past five years (his wife is Thai), photographically obsessing over three select, fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the landscape: the wildly sculptural fluorescent bulb streetlights which dot the countryside, Bangkok's endless maze of seemingly deserted backstreets and, finally, exotic jungle plants discovered by flashlight at night. The images in this forthcoming book transport the viewer far from the stereotypical Thailand of crowded islands and sunburned tourists. Chris Mottalini's photographs strip away all unnecessary noise and distraction, providing the viewer with the rare opportunity to closely observe that which would otherwise go unnoticed. "Land of Smiles" is like taking a walking tour in a dream. This is a unique portrait of Thailand as few people will ever experience it.
Download or read book The Land of Smiles written by Franz Lehár and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Behind the Smile by : Sanitsudā ʻĒkkachai
Download or read book Behind the Smile written by Sanitsudā ʻĒkkachai and published by Unknown International ISBN Prefixes. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles on difficulties and hardships faced by Thai villagers and suggestions about how to tackle them; previously published in Bangkok post, 1988-1990.
Book Synopsis The Way of Smiles by : James William Foley
Download or read book The Way of Smiles written by James William Foley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Winnie Moo by : Niki Sinsawas
Download or read book The Adventures of Winnie Moo written by Niki Sinsawas and published by Adventures of Winnie Moo. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hi! My name is Winnie Moo and I live in a magical kingdom called the Land of Smiles! I'm an adventure puppy with a very important job - I take all of my new friends on fantastic journeys with me! We float down rushing rivers, swim in crystal clear seas, and walk alongside gentle giants. We climb coconut trees, snooze in swinging hammocks, and smile our biggest smiles. I'm ready for a new adventure! Let's go!
