Lawrence Osborne

Bangkok Days (eBook, ePUB)

A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons-a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. And so the restless exile stays.

Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. Bangkok Days is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429957328
• Artikelnr.: 39950455