Laos


The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)
Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5)
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
Run Me to Earth
The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
Escaping the Tiger by Laura ManivongComing Home by Boontak K ChittaThe Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillThe Merry Misogynist by Colin CotterillThe Plain of Jars by N. Lombardi Jr.
Novels set in Laos
24 books — 3 voters

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
178 books — 40 voters
The Boy and the Dog by Seishū HaseSakura by Kanako NishiInuYasha Ani-Manga, Vol. 1 by Rumiko TakahashiBronze Dog by Jian LiThe Strange Tale of Doctor Dog by Norman Hinsdale Pitman
Dogs in Asian Fiction
28 books — 4 voters

Tucker Elliot
No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. It’s a paradox like civilization’s other great rivers—be it the Nile, Indus, Euphrates, Ganges or China’s Sorrow the Huang He—for without its waters life is a daily struggle for survival; yet with its waters life is a daily bet that natural disasters and diseases will visit someone else’s village, because it’s not if, but when it’s going to happen that’s the relevant ques ...more
Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

C'est un retour sans joie. Le monde que nous avons laissé derrière nous n'existe plus. L'Indochine française s'est effacée. Le Royaume du Laos a basculé. Une république communiste s'est emparée des terres et des esprits. Nous avons rompu avec ce système-là. Notre pays imaginaire te hante, je le sais. Par mon ignorance, je suis préservée de son emprise. Moi, je n'ai que des hypothèses. Mes fictions claudicantes sont bien inoffensives. Elles ne génèrent aucun regret, aucun sentiment coupable. C'es ...more
Loo Hui Phang, L'Imprudence

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