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Buy Fifth Edition on Kindle
In the new introduction to the fifth edition of Another Quiet American,
now available around the world on Kindle at Amazon.com, uk, de, fr, it and es, I write about how much has changed in Laos since I lived there -- and how much remains the same. Click here to read the new introduction, and please do let me know your thoughts by signing the guestbook below, or leaving a comment
on my Facebook page. Thanks so much -- BD P.S. Now I can even sign
your e-books -- just make a request at Kindlegraph! Also, the book is now available for FREE to Kindle owners at the Lending Library.
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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 "A witty,
personal account ... through the eyes of a young American among raucous expats in Vientiane." -- Frommers Southeast Asia "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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