Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok

3.7/5 ( ratings)

In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade Aeon, a homeless insurgent who fled to the jungle after a military crackdown on student protestors in 1976, it’s a verdant refuge and the place from which he documents the underbelly of the city. For Ida Barnes, an ex-pat whose husband may be cheating on her, it’s an inviting retreat. For Witty, an urbane property developer married to one of the city’s most famous movie stars, it’s a ‘Bangkok Unicorn’ – that rare chance to make his mark on the Bangkok skyline. But the slum-dwelling spirits who guard its secrets know that it holds a much darker history, that it masks the silent politics at the heart of Thai culture.

Language: English

Pages: 371

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Granta Books

Release: May 06, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781783786183

Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok

3.7/5 ( ratings)

In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade Aeon, a homeless insurgent who fled to the jungle after a military crackdown on student protestors in 1976, it’s a verdant refuge and the place from which he documents the underbelly of the city. For Ida Barnes, an ex-pat whose husband may be cheating on her, it’s an inviting retreat. For Witty, an urbane property developer married to one of the city’s most famous movie stars, it’s a ‘Bangkok Unicorn’ – that rare chance to make his mark on the Bangkok skyline. But the slum-dwelling spirits who guard its secrets know that it holds a much darker history, that it masks the silent politics at the heart of Thai culture.

Language: English

Pages: 371

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Granta Books

Release: May 06, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781783786183

More books from Emma Larkin

Finding George Orwell in Burma

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Izzy's Magical Football Adventure

Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: essays and photographs from Yangon

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Finding George Orwell in Burma

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Izzy's Magical Camogie Adventure (Izzy's Magical Adventure)

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Izzy's Magical Football Adventure Kerry Edition

4.6/5 ( ratings)

在缅甸寻找乔治·奥威尔

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?