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A carregar... Siam: or The Woman Who Shot a Manpor Lily Tuck
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I loved this book for its many references to learning the Thai language - evoked happy memories of my time in Thailand. The writing style felt very F. Scott Fitzgerald - dumb, wealthy people bored with their lives, behaving badly. ( ) I thoroughly enjoyed this book -- the life of the ex-pat's wife in a foreign country is seldom fun. It can be a lonely existence, particularly when the husband is off traveling a good part of the time. I found this story particularly interesting with respect to the Jim Thompson connection. I have floor pillows, placemats, and silk napkins all with the Jim Thompson stamp on them -- Until I read this book, I had no knowledge of his strange disappearance (he has never been found) and his background...I encourage readers of this book to Google him after they have read the book and you will get the connection to the book's subtitle and the events of the final chapters. I highly recommend this book, especially to anyone who has traveled in South Asia and perhaps visited the Thompson home/museum. Fascinating that the author could craft a novel around this real person, whose disappearance remains a mystery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(designer) Claire meets her husband on a plane and is swept away with him to Thailand, a country she knoes nothing about, not even to pronounce its name properly. She tries to get a handle on the country, but a dinnerparty leads her to a meeting with Jim Thompson, a businessman. When Jim disappears in the Cameron Highlands, Claire becomes obsessed with him. It is 1967 and the U.S. are using Thailand as as a base for their attacks on N. Vietnam. An interesting look at the life on an ex-pat wife caught up in the effects of U.S. policy in South Asia. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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