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Book Synopsis Thai Children's Favorite Stories by : Marian D. Toth
Download or read book Thai Children's Favorite Stories written by Marian D. Toth and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In captivating text and illustrations, this beautiful multicultural children's book presents a collection of cherished fables, myths, legends and fairy tales from Thailand that have been passed down through generations of Thai families. The nine charming stories in this book feature clever princesses, warring gods and goddesses, foolish kings, and wily tigers, against a backdrop of traditional Thai village life. They deal with the universal values that parents everywhere want to teach their children, such as good versus evil, right versus wrong, and wisdom versus foolishness. Stories include "How The Thais Learned to Be Calm," when a small village argument escalates into a terrible war; "Princess Golden Flower and the Vulture King," in which a brave princess saves herself from an evil king; and "The Gold Harvest" in which a wise father-in-law tricks his lazy son-in-law into working hard for his family. Curated and narrated by Marion D. Toth and illustrated by Thai artist Patcharee Meesukhon, this collection will provide children with an insight into the traditional Thai culture, and the values and lifestyle of its people. This book will be enjoyed by children ages six to ten, as well as by their parents. Other Thai stories in this book include: How the Bay of Bangkok Came to Be Why Do We Have Thunder and Lightning? The Wisest Man in Siam There is No Such Thing As a Secret How the Tiger Got its Stripes The Footprint of the Buddha
Book Synopsis The S.E.A. Write Anthology of Thai Short Stories and Poems by : Nitaya Masavisut
Download or read book The S.E.A. Write Anthology of Thai Short Stories and Poems written by Nitaya Masavisut and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Southeast Asian Write Award winning stories and poems organized by International PEN Thai Centre.
Book Synopsis Thai Stories for Language Learners by : Jintana Rattanakhemakorn
Download or read book Thai Stories for Language Learners written by Jintana Rattanakhemakorn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages! Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions presented on facing pages. The stories are adapted from traditional folktales with roots in the Thai oral tradition, classic Thai literature, and Thai versions of the Indian Jataka Tales--which describe the past lives of the Buddha. The stories in this book include: "The Frightened Rabbit" is a well-known story about rabbit who hears a loud thundering sound and concludes it is a landslide, without investigating further. He runs about telling others of the landslide, thus causing unnecessary panic. "A Horse-faced Woman" is one of the most popular folktales in Thailand because the heroine's appearance and character differ vastly from other Thai heroines. Her equine appearance, unpopularity with fellow villagers, and passionate desires to marry the handsome Prince Pin Thong collide. "A Myth of Phra Ruang" is a classic tale popular among Thai people. It tells the story of a legendary hero--Phra Ruang--who frees the people of Lavo (Lopburi) from the ancient Khmer rulers. When the Khmer king tries to kill him, Phra Ruang escapes and is ordained as a monk. And many more! Alongside each story, readers will find: A list of key vocabulary in the Thai script, Romanized form, and the English meanings A set of questions and writing activities A Thai pronunciation guide Online audio recording in order to improve pronunciation and comprehension. This book will be of interest to learners who are beginning to read and write the Thai language and would like additional practice, as well as to general readers interested in learning about Thai culture.
Book Synopsis Travelers' Tales Thailand by : James O'Reilly
Download or read book Travelers' Tales Thailand written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times
Book Synopsis A Drop of Glass and Other Stories by : Sīdāorư̄ang
Download or read book A Drop of Glass and Other Stories written by Sīdāorư̄ang and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bangkok Wakes to Rain by : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
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.
Book Synopsis Sightseeing by : Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Download or read book Sightseeing written by Rattawut Lapcharoensap and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestseller by the award-winning Thai American author. “A brilliant collection . . . brimming with sharp-clawed survival lessons” (Los Angeles Times). Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Written with exceptional acuity, grace, and sophistication, the stories present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes. In the prize-winning opening story “Farangs,” the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty American tourist. In the novella, “Cockfighter,” a young girl witnesses her proud father’s valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family has a vicious stranglehold on the villagers. Through his vivid assemblage of parents and children, natives and transients, ardent lovers and sworn enemies, Lapcharoensap dares us to look with new eyes at the circumstances that shape our views and the prejudices that form our blind spots. Gorgeous and lush, painful and candid, Sightseeing is an extraordinary reading experience, one that powerfully reveals that when it comes to how we respond to pain, anger, hurt, and love, no place is too far from home. “Lapcharoensap is a commanding, animated tour guide, and a lot more than that—he can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent . . . [He] has a gift for the detail that catches not only his Thai milieu but teenage life everywhere.” —Darin Strauss, The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Hush! written by Minfong Ho and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.
Book Synopsis A Good True Thai by : Sunisa Manning
Download or read book A Good True Thai written by Sunisa Manning and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results. Det has just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to his best friend Chang, a smart boy from the slums, as they go to college; while there, Det falls for Lek, a Chinese immigrant with radical ideals. Longing for glory, Det journeys into his friends’ political circles, and then into the Thai jungle to fight. During Thailand’s most famous period of political and artistic openness, these three friends must reconcile their deep feelings for one another with the realities of perilous political revolution.
Download or read book Talk Thai written by Ira Sukrungruang and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On one side of the door, the rich smell of sweet, spicy food and the calm of Buddhist devotion; on the other, the strangeness of a new land. When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the U.S., they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of “American” names. In this lively, entertaining, and often hilarious memoir, he relates the early life of a first-generation Thai-American and his constant, often bumbling attempts to reconcile cultural and familial expectations with the trials of growing up in 1980s America. Young Ira may have lived in Oak Lawn, Illinois, but inside the family’s bi-level home was “Thailand with American conveniences.” They ate Thai food, spoke the Thai language, and observed Thai customs. His bedtime stories were tales of Buddha and monkey-faced demons. On the first day of school his mother reminded him that he had a Siamese warrior’s eyes—despite his thick glasses—as Aunty Sue packed his Muppets lunch box with fried rice. But when his schoolmates played tag he was always It, and as he grew, he faced the constant challenge of reconciling American life with a cardinal family rule: “Remember, you are Thai.” Inside the Thai Buddhist temple of Chicago, another “simulated Thailand,” are more rules, rules different from those of the Southside streets, and we see mainstream Western religion—“god people”—through the Sukrungruang family’s eyes. Within the family circle, we meet a mother who started packing for her return to Thailand the moment she arrived; her best friend, Aunty Sue, Ira’s second mother, who lives with and cooks for the family; and a wayward father whose dreams never quite pan out. Talk Thai is a richly told account that takes us into an immigrant’s world. Here is a story imbued with Thai spices and the sensibilities of an American upbringing, a story in which Ira practices English by reciting lines from TV sitcoms and struggles with the feeling of not belonging in either of his two worlds. For readers who delight in the writings of Amy Tan, Gish Jen, and other Asian-Americans, Talk Thai provides generous portions of a still-mysterious culture while telling the story of an American boyhood with humor, playfulness, and uncompromising honesty.
Download or read book Behind the Painting written by Siburapha and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Thailand’s best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman ‘In that tranquil and apparently very ordinary picture, I see everything unfolding. Every scene, every part, from the beginning to the final act’ Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is tasked with hosting a distinguished old family friend and his new wife, the beautiful, aristocratic Kirati. Despite their difference in age and status, and the social constraints of the day, Nopporn and Kirati are inexorably drawn to each other, and love starts to bloom. A stirring portrayal of youthful romantic obsession, and later attempts to come to terms with the frailty of passionate feelings, Behind the Painting also shows the constrained lives of many women of the time. First published in 1937, it is one of Thailand’s best-known and most beloved novels. Translated by David Smyth
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.
Download or read book Thai Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sawas Dee Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781536988505 Total Pages :166 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Thailand-Newbie written by Sawas Dee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German author is presenting the English translation of his successful serial book "Thailand-Neuling". In an entertaining way Sawas Dee brings us closer to the culture and mentality of Thai people. His stories about Thai girls give an amazing view on the life of an expat in Pattaya.
Book Synopsis Behind the Red Mist by : Anh Thái Hò̂
Download or read book Behind the Red Mist written by Anh Thái Hò̂ and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind the Red Mist" offers for the first time in English a wide range of stories from an important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. Ho Anh Thai is known for his bitingly sharp and gently whimsical fiction.
Download or read book Real Thai written by Nancie McDermott and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than one hundred easy-to-follow recipes for popular dishes from Thailand.
Book Synopsis Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure by : Russ Crowley
Download or read book Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure written by Russ Crowley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many search online looking for free material to learn Thaiwith and, apart from wasted time, end up with confusing material, notknowing whether the material will actually work for them or not; and,whether they're actually wasting their time. If they do manage tofinish successfully, there's rarely any idea on what to do next. Welcome to Quest. Quick, Easy, Simple Thai is the series we have written to help youfulfil your Quest to learn the beautiful Thai language. Embarking onsuch a project can be a daunting prospect, but to dispel all fears, wehave broken your quest down into a series of small adventures – thestarting point is Volume I - Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure (orLTYGA). But, what makes us different? Quest is the only end-to-end system which guarantees you willlearn, be able to speak, and read Thai by the time you reach the end ofour series. Even better is you'll enjoy yourself on the way: “…your method really appeals to me and is FUN as well as clear. Thanks so much forall your hard work – I hope it all pays off for you and Duangta!” Uda G,Chippenham, UK, 8th July 2013 Quest is designed with the absolute beginner in mind andthough Thai is traditionally considered difficult to learn, – andlearning Thai script ranks way, way up there with the best of the bunch– we make it so simple: “I want to thank you for creating a system in which learning Thai is much much more naturalrather than filled with 'technical jargon'…” Emiliusz Smorczewski, Illinois, USA, 3rd July 2013 You may already know that there are 12 differenttransliteration systems in Thailand (transliteration is where thesounds of Thai are written in English) and if you've browsedextensively, then you'll realize different people use differentsystems. If your ultimate goal is to read Thai – and why wouldn't itbe, we've made it so easy now – having to learn 1 transliterationsystem is still 1 too many. Ideally, you want to be able to read Thaiscript; so, why bother learning it in the first place? Well, unless you're a language genius or have huge amounts oftime, then you're probably interested in learning as soon as possible;and, with Quest, you only learn 1 system. This way, you are focused,can follow exactly what we're saying and talking about and don't wastetime. We also use our own color-coding system (which makes learning somuch simple and easier for a beginner). As we use the same system across all our material (our books,and our pc, Mac, and iPad applications), you know you're on the fastestpath to completing your quest. We give you what you need to learn, and introduce you to theThai language, the Thai alphabet: the consonants, vowels, tone, andmuch more. Our full-color, 210-page book, is packed with everything youneed to begin your adventure with the best start imaginable: “I will inform you that learning Thai with the help of LTYGA and your onlineapplication has never been easier. Moreover, I must say that the resources that you have created are the best that I've found tolearn the Thai script because all the necessary knowledge is in oneplace and these resources, I feel, are based on the student's needs tolearn; to learn Thai without the hassles of jargon. LTYGA and youronline application are to the point. I like that a lot.” Emiliusz Smorczewski, Illinois, USA, 7th August 2013 Don't delay, begin today! LTYGA is the first volume in our Quest series: Quest – Quick, Easy, Simple Thai.
