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The ETG Book Club . Laos

The ETG Book Club . Laos
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IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GOOD READ...

Here are a few of our favourite reading recommendations for Laos.  If you're tempted to buy any of these titles but you don't have a local bookshop, we'd like to suggest using Hive, a website which supports independent bookstores (and offers free delivery).  

The Coroner's Lunch

Colin Cotterill

The first in a series of crime novels about Dr Siri, a septuagenarian medical doctor unwillingly appointed the national coroner of newly communist Laos in 1976. Siri's sense of humour gets him through his often frustrating days in an underfunded lab, with an incompetent boss and a quirky support staff, as he works to investigate suspicious deaths that the party would like to keep under wraps.  

"I really enjoyed reading this while on holiday in Laos." Alice, Experience Travel Group

One Foot in Laos

Dervla Murphy

Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy chronicles her 1957 visit to the most heavily bombed nation on earth. She speeds through Laos on her beat-up bicycle describing the welcoming and kind Lao people she meets along the way.

Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos

Brett Dakin

Brett Dakin spent two years working in Laos and returned to the States a changed man. In Another Quiet American, he takes you through the corridors of power and the living rooms of the poor in 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 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 no happiness.

Dakin provides a sympathetic yet irreverent glimpse into life in one of the world's few remaining communist nations, questioning the US's influence on the country and embarking on the soul-searching identity quest of an American abroad.

Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos

Christopher Kremmer

This is an engaging account of Kremmer's search for the lost royal family of Laos, a 600-year-old dynasty consumed by the violent troubles of the 1960s and '70s.  It gives both a glimpse of contemporary life in Laos while lifting the edge of the veil on Lao history and revealing some of its dark secrets.

"Part history, part travelogue, part pacy mystery this is a great read for anyone planning a trip to Laos," Rob, Nakarath Travel (ETG's in-country partner in Laos)

Moon Bear

Gill Lewis

A moving story for 9+ about a boy and a bear in captivity in Laos. When twelve-year-old Tam is sent to work at a bear farm in the city, he has never felt so alone. He hates seeing the cruel way the bears are treated, but speaking up will mean losing his job. And if he can't send money home, how will his family survive? 

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