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Buy Fifth Edition on Kindle
You can buy the book on Kindle at Amazon.com, uk, de, fr, it and es. It is also available
for free to Kindle owners at the Lending Library. Please let me know your thoughts by
signing the guestbook or leaving a comment on my Facebook page. I can even sign your e-books -- just make a request at Kindlegraph! Thanks so much -- BD
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"No other personal account of contemporary Laos is as
informative, under-the-surface and well written." -- Joe Cummings, Lonely Planet Laos
"A must for anyone looking to understand Laos today." -- Jeff Cranmer, Rough
Guide Laos "I have read several memoirs written by visitors to Laos.
Another Quiet American is by far the best." -- A Reader, Amazon.com "An
excellent contribution to a better understanding of life in Asia." -- Far Eastern Economic Review
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Brett Dakin spent two years working in Vientiane, Laos and returned to the States
a changed man. In Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos (Asia Books, fifth edition, 2011), he
takes you through the corridors of power and into the living rooms of Laos. You'll
meet his boss, a wealthy general whose power and reputation scares his countrymen; a prince with connections to the French
colonial past; an American |
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pilot who left home for Indochina during the war and never returned; and rich Lao twenty-somethings who have all
the money they could want, but have yet to find happiness.
Dakin
provides a sympathetic yet irreverent glimpse into life in one of the world's few remaining communist nations, questioning
the United States' influence on the country and embarking on the soul-searching journey of a young American abroad.
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