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Literature on SE Asia
Tue, 03/22/2005 - 11:54
New Member
Anyone have any favorite works they can recommend for reading up on this area – particularly Vietnam and Cambodia. Historical, travelogue, fiction…any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks
The Piano Tuner
Are You Experienced by William Sutcliffe.
True, it is about India, however every traveller, and reveller should read it.
I will actually contribute at another point.
OMG that’s the funniest story – I loved that book!
A good book about Cambodia is Off the Rails in Phnom Penh. It is about expat life in the city. Utterly mind boggling. I wouldn’t be alive for more than three days there!
Other historical books about Cambodia are Cambodia : Year Zero which deals with the first years of the Khmer Rouge regime and the rape of the country. First They Killed My Father is an emotional piece about a young survivors life throughout the ravages of the Khmer. I tputs a human face onto the facts of the former.
Unfortunately I don’t have the authors names at hand, as the books are currently packed away.
An excellent Viet Namese selection would be The Sorrow Of War – amazing!
thanks for the recommendations – I will check em out…
I’ve already read Are You Experienced and would agree that every traveler should read – very funny!!
From a factual perspective Dawn Rooney’s bible on Angkor[url=‘http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9622176836/qid=1112706214/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-7137195-7124159’](An introduction to the temples)[/url] is an essential purchase. Nothing whets the appetite better!!
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If you’re up for some non-fiction, I really enjoyed Emergency Sex, the story of 3 young UN volunteers in Cambodia just after the Khmer Rouge. I don’t remember the author’s name, but I’m sure you can find it on Amazon.
Lonely Planet’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring.
Yep, I got nothing.
Most LP guides have some suggested reading in the beginning of the book. I can’t rmember the name, but before I went to Vietnam, I read a humorous account of a young man buying and riding a motorcycle form one end of the country to the other very shortly after the borders first opened.
"First They Killed My Father" is a pretty sobering read.