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Laos Books
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The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as laos)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,465 ratings — published 2004
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as laos)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,694 ratings — published
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as laos)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,487 ratings — published 2005
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as laos)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,053 ratings — published 2020
Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as laos)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,927 ratings — published 2006
Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5)
by (shelved 43 times as laos)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,723 ratings — published 2008
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as laos)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,336 ratings — published 2007
Run Me to Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as laos)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,680 ratings — published 2020
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as laos)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,772 ratings — published 2008
The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as laos)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,443 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as laos)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,274 ratings — published 1997
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
by (shelved 32 times as laos)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,173 ratings — published 2010
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as laos)
avg rating 3.27 — 179 ratings — published 1999
Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
by (shelved 30 times as laos)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,002 ratings — published 2011
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as laos)
avg rating 3.77 — 150 ratings — published 2005
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #9)
by (shelved 24 times as laos)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,868 ratings — published 2013
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as laos)
avg rating 3.93 — 620 ratings — published 1951
Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as laos)
avg rating 3.69 — 308 ratings — published 2003
Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as laos)
avg rating 3.83 — 203 ratings — published 2004
One Foot in Laos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as laos)
avg rating 3.69 — 212 ratings — published 1999
The Rat Catchers' Olympics (Dr. Siri Paiboun #12)
by (shelved 14 times as laos)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,621 ratings — published 2017
Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10)
by (shelved 14 times as laos)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,247 ratings — published 2015
Don't Eat Me (Dr. Siri Paiboun #13)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,567 ratings — published 2018
A Great Place To Have A War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 3.90 — 794 ratings — published 2017
I Shot the Buddha (Dr. Siri Paiboun #11)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,982 ratings — published 2016
Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as laos)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,865 ratings — published 2024
The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #15)
by (shelved 10 times as laos)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,154 ratings — published 2020
The Second Biggest Nothing (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #14)
by (shelved 9 times as laos)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,241 ratings — published 2019
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as laos)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,958 ratings — published 2016
A Short History Of Laos: The Land In Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as laos)
avg rating 3.74 — 137 ratings — published 2002
The Ravens: The Men Who Flew In America's Secret War In Laos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as laos)
avg rating 4.25 — 781 ratings — published 1987
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as laos)
avg rating 4.03 — 99 ratings — published 1993
A Luang Prabang Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 3.00 — 17 ratings — published
Across the Mekong River (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 4.05 — 659 ratings — published 2004
Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 4.02 — 132 ratings — published 1996
Lonely Planet Laos (Travel Guide)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 3.92 — 218 ratings — published 1994
Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 3.62 — 40 ratings — published 1997
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,453 ratings — published 2009
Shooting At The Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 4.11 — 122 ratings — published 1995
The Illiterate Daughter (The Young Guardian Book 1)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.44 — 90 ratings — published
From the Tops of the Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.25 — 777 ratings — published
When the sky turns upside down (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.11 — 19 ratings — published
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.43 — 103,915 ratings — published 2014
Love Began in Laos: The Story of an Extraordinary Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.52 — 42 ratings — published
I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir From Communist Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.28 — 32 ratings — published 2006
A History Of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.70 — 46 ratings — published 1997
Escaping the Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.95 — 104 ratings — published 2010
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.85 — 390 ratings — published 2002
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,499 ratings — published 1995
Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2009
“A si predstavljaš? sem v prvi zarji še ves zjagan razpredal Romani. Steklenica viskija za pol dolarja in zjutraj nič ne boli glava! Pol dolarja in vsaj za dolar sem ga spil ...
Nekje sredi poti proti jugu pa sem planil čez njo, avtobusno okno se je odprlo le zgrda in komajda sem zvozil, da nisem bruhal po ubožici, vsej nedolžni in zgarani od polnočnih reportaž. Plačal sem vse za nazaj in čez mejo prilezel kot stara kuzla z ohceti; še dobro, da so me tako zdelenaga sploh spustili v nov državo...”
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Nekje sredi poti proti jugu pa sem planil čez njo, avtobusno okno se je odprlo le zgrda in komajda sem zvozil, da nisem bruhal po ubožici, vsej nedolžni in zgarani od polnočnih reportaž. Plačal sem vse za nazaj in čez mejo prilezel kot stara kuzla z ohceti; še dobro, da so me tako zdelenaga sploh spustili v nov državo...”
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“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'est mon amnésie que tu nommes ingratitude et que tu tentes de mater par ton "toujours une Vietnamienne".
~ p 29”
― L'Imprudence
~ p 29”
― L'Imprudence
