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A Kingdom in Crisis

A Kingdom in Crisis
  • Author(s): Andrew MacGregor Marshall
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21 century

Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy appears increasingly distant. Long dreaded by Thais,...

A Malayan Affair

A Malayan Affair
  • Author(s): Rob Holley
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

The affair of the planter’s wife running off with her driver had been a burning topic in the British High Commission and clubs, and had even occupied several discreet paragraphs in the Straits Times … It is 1930s Malaya...

A Man of Two Faces

A Man of Two Faces
  • Author(s): Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Location(s): San José, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam...

A Pledge of Silence

A Pledge of Silence
  • Author(s): Flora J Solomon
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A World War II novel based on the plight of American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Follow Margie whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces. January of 1941, Margie...

A Rumor of War

A Rumor of War
  • Author(s): Philip Caputo
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Vietnam War and aftermath

“A singular and marvelous work.” — The New York Times “Compelling . . . A thoroughly honest view of what the experience of Vietnam meant to a young college graduate, a ‘gung-ho’ lieutenant in the marine corps who enlisted...

A Song for Cambodia

A Song for Cambodia
  • Author(s): Michelle Lord
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1975

When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn’s village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family...

A Sunrise Over Bali

A Sunrise Over Bali
  • Author(s): Sandy Barker
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Home is where the heart is . . . When Jaelee Tan leaves her high-flying PR job in Miami for a sabbatical in Bali, the last thing she expects is for it to become permanent. But when her boss...

A Thousand Years of Rain

A Thousand Years of Rain
  • Author(s): Michael Lipinski
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is Thailand. Legal, illegal … those terms are defined by who you are, who you know, how much money you have. Alex Marek’s once idyllic life in southern Thailand is being shattered. He is about to lose his...

A Vietcong Memoir

A Vietcong Memoir
  • Author(s): Troung Nhu Tang
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the “fight for liberation” — and one of the...

A Wife in Bangkok

A Wife in Bangkok
  • Author(s): Iris Mitlin Lav
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

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...

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