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Chamberlain is a college town in the American Midwest. Its population is 20,000 people when school is in session, 15,000 in August.
It has 20,000 stories. Here are some of them.
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Chamberlain is a college town in the American Midwest. Its population is 20,000 people when school is in session, 15,000 in August.
It has 20,000 stories. Here are some of them.
Chamberlain is a college town in the American Midwest. Its population is 20,000 people when school is in session, 15,000 in August.
It has 20,000 stories. Here are some of them.
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The story is based in the fictitious Ramage Islands a former British colony and SE Asian state run by a wealthy elite who belittle the downtrodden and often desperately poor masses.
After life as a street child Kelly almost inevitable ends up ‘working bar.’ She meets Philip Carrington a retired UK businessman just before her friend is killed by a tearaway driver who is the son of a local politician. The son is due to ‘walkover’ a local council bye election but Kelly makes it a competition and aided by Carrington wins. This sets in chain a series of events which lead to Kelly eventually seeking the ultimate position of President.
But as ever in Asia there are more than a few obstacles in the way as she struggles with total corruption and an elite that may talk about good governance, and wanting a better place for all, but it the end they do not want to change anything.
This is a fast paced story that looks into the soul of Asian governance as well as the way the West treats the third world.
Mace has almost run out of money in the beautiful kingdom of Thailand, but finds refuge in the red shirt camp. He falls in love with a beautiful woman who will have his baby.
However, this comes to a shocking end when the soldiers of the government come rushing into the village and clear everyone out in a hail of bullets, chemicals and tear gas!
Half an hour later I’m still workin’ an’ I’m makin’ good progress. But I get interrupted. The chick is gettin’ bored sittin’ in bed by herself. She calls out with a real soft voice an’ summons me to some more arduous tasks in the bedroom. I slurp down another drink to damp down the fires of lust.
“Natalie,” I tell her, “I’ll be with you in a few minutes. I just gotta finish this last check-list.”
But she wasn’t to be put off. She undulated into the room, came behind me an’ put her arms around my neck. Her naked little body seemed to glow in the half-light of the room, her bare arms were silken an’ brown. Lights were dancin’ in her eyes as she pouted an invitation to me.
“Pleease..,.” she purred.
By that time I was pawin’ the ground for it. All I could do was get my kit off an’ jump into bed.
Tippawan Bongkot ist eine junge thailändische Frau auf der Flucht. Das Leben, wie sie es kannte, endete in der Nacht, in der sie ihren Verlobten mit seinem Liebhaber vorfand. Ihre Welt brach an dem Tag zusammen, an dem sie ihren Job verlor.
Verzweifelt auf der Suche nach Arbeit flüchtet Tippawan in das Touristen-Resort Pattaya, hoffend, dass sich ihr Schicksal dort zum Besseren wenden und ihre Pechsträhne zu einem Ende kommen wird. Als sie Bekanntschaft mit einem Farang, einem Ausländer namens Mike macht, ändern sich die Dinge tatsächlich, aber auf eine Art und Weise, mit der sie im Traum nicht gerechnet hätte. Ihre Suche nach Glück ist ein spannendes Abenteuer, welches der Leser nicht so bald vergessen wird.
Begleitet Tippawan auf ihrer Reise durch ein Jahr ihres unglaublichen Lebens. Entdeckt die Liebe, den Hass und die Intrigen, die unter der stillen Oberfläche des alltäglichen Thailands lauern.
An extremely evocative collection of stories set in contemporary Thailand by an award-winning author. Trirat Petchsingh’s masterfully-crafted stories are quirky, interesting, and always fun to read.
His language is often beautiful and powerful. He has a first-rate ability to keep his readers in suspense and then surprise them with unexpected endings.
There are intriguing stories about family relationships, lovers and cads, and other ordinary mortals. They deal with rites of passage, life’s mysteries and epiphanies, and sometimes just ordinary experiences, but always with an intriguing twist. His heroes, while not all entirely loveable, are all believable and worthy of our sympathy. For example, there is a miner who seeks his fortune in the hills of the north, a news reporter who mixes a little romance with his work, and an army conscript who becomes involved in momentous events. In this collection of nineteen stories, Trirat Petchsingh has revealed an insight into the Thai milieu that no other author has attempted.
Hier versucht es der Autor mit einer Symbiose, erst blickt er zurück auf die Biografie seines um neun Jahre älteren Bruders, um dann nach seinem Tod seine Rolle weiter zu führen!
Mit Ausnahme eines kleinen Zusatzberichtes, handelt es sich dabei um einen Tatsachenbericht.
Aufmerksame Leser mögen den Abschnitt erkennen, welcher die Geschichte abgerundet hat! Er ändert aber nichts an den Tatsachen, dass sich mehr als 90% der Handlungen genau so abgespielt haben.
Und wie der Titel bereits aussagt, handelt es sich primär um einen geschichtlichen Rückblick in die französische Kolonialzeit.