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Rice without Rain
The parched yellow fields outside the village where seventeen-year-old Jinda lives are her family's only source of income. How can the rain-starved crop produce enough rice to feed them, much less pay the rent? Perhaps the recently arrived young strangers from the city are right about the need for centuries-old traditions to change. At least when she listens to their talk, she feels the stirrings of hope...
Hesitantly, Jinga grows to trust the outsiders. There is Sri, who brings with her life-saving medicines and knowledge of how to use them. And there is Ned, who talks of taking charge of one's own destiny, and fighting those who would stand in the way. It is almost too late when Jinda realizes that her trust is misplaced -- that to Sri and Ned their cause is more important than the lives it would affect. Against a vividly evoked backdrop of rural and urban Thailand, Jinda heroically faces the challenges of holding on to who she is as the world around her revolves in what seems to be never-ending change.
236 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
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Minfong Ho
28 books45 followersMinfong Ho is an award-winning Chinese-American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries.
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February 5, 2014
This a story i read almost 15 years ago, but my memories of its story is still as vivid as ever - I can still remember most of the story and the feelings I had when reading it years ago. Kudos to Minfong Ho for writing such a thought-provoking story of life in the countryside, and for bringing to life for us a picture of rural Thailand.
Rice Without Rain is a story of rural life in a farming community in Thailand, of a village girl named Jinda, and her simple life in the village. However this simplicity and innocence is taken away when a group of university students from Bangkok spent a period of time living with the villagers. That encounter changed Jinda's life forever and changed her father's view on equality and economic survival. In the young university students, her father found the courage to speak and to stand up against the exorbitant rent imposed upon the villagers for the use of the village farmland. In Ned, a young university student, Jinda found young love. However, the future of the village is fraught with problems. Recent drought had led to a paltry harvest, of which a large portion has to be given to the landlord for rental. Spurred by the incendiary speeches of the university students, Jinda's father decides to stand up for his rights and give only a portion of the harvest that he deems fair, to his landlord. This causes a scuffle and lands him in jail. While in jail, he dies from an infected bullet wound on his hand caused by a gunshot sustained while he was running away. After the demise of her father, Jinda's life changes forever and she learns to take charge as head of the family. Jinda also lost Ned when she realised that he cared for his political ideology more than for her, and her simple dreams of setting up a family with him and living quietly in the countryside. Though Jinda's path was fraught with tragedy and difficulty, the story ends with the promise of a potential harvest, and the birth of her sister Dao's baby (born out of wedlock as Dao had also chased after her dreams of marrying a rich man and had her dreams dashed after becoming pregnant). This symbolises that despite their losses, there is hope yet, for Jinda, her family and the village.
This book is full of contrasts: between the educated and the uneducated, between the rich and the poor, between the political ideology of the university students and the simple wish of the villagers to live an idyllic life, between conflicting views on what love is, between the bleak harvest and the promise of a better harvest at the end of the book.
It also has elements of irony: that even though Jinda and Dao has conflicting views of love, their ending point is the same - fighting to survive on their own without the men they loved.also, though the villagers lacked materially compared to the university students and the few residents of Bangkok described in the book (eg university medical student Sri and her mother), the idea I got after reading this book is that despite their many setbacks, the poorer and uneducated villagers are more resilient and happier that their richer and educated counterparts in the city - and that wealth is not defined only by one's material belongings.
This is a poignant (especially during the part where Jinda lost her father), thought-provoking and uplifting book, definitely recommended for anyone who would like a flavour of life in rural South East Asia, and gain a deeper insight into the importance of family and happiness, and the definition of wealth, and that there is hope for the future despite a negative outlook (as reflected by its title Rice Without Rain).
Rice Without Rain is a story of rural life in a farming community in Thailand, of a village girl named Jinda, and her simple life in the village. However this simplicity and innocence is taken away when a group of university students from Bangkok spent a period of time living with the villagers. That encounter changed Jinda's life forever and changed her father's view on equality and economic survival. In the young university students, her father found the courage to speak and to stand up against the exorbitant rent imposed upon the villagers for the use of the village farmland. In Ned, a young university student, Jinda found young love. However, the future of the village is fraught with problems. Recent drought had led to a paltry harvest, of which a large portion has to be given to the landlord for rental. Spurred by the incendiary speeches of the university students, Jinda's father decides to stand up for his rights and give only a portion of the harvest that he deems fair, to his landlord. This causes a scuffle and lands him in jail. While in jail, he dies from an infected bullet wound on his hand caused by a gunshot sustained while he was running away. After the demise of her father, Jinda's life changes forever and she learns to take charge as head of the family. Jinda also lost Ned when she realised that he cared for his political ideology more than for her, and her simple dreams of setting up a family with him and living quietly in the countryside. Though Jinda's path was fraught with tragedy and difficulty, the story ends with the promise of a potential harvest, and the birth of her sister Dao's baby (born out of wedlock as Dao had also chased after her dreams of marrying a rich man and had her dreams dashed after becoming pregnant). This symbolises that despite their losses, there is hope yet, for Jinda, her family and the village.
This book is full of contrasts: between the educated and the uneducated, between the rich and the poor, between the political ideology of the university students and the simple wish of the villagers to live an idyllic life, between conflicting views on what love is, between the bleak harvest and the promise of a better harvest at the end of the book.
It also has elements of irony: that even though Jinda and Dao has conflicting views of love, their ending point is the same - fighting to survive on their own without the men they loved.also, though the villagers lacked materially compared to the university students and the few residents of Bangkok described in the book (eg university medical student Sri and her mother), the idea I got after reading this book is that despite their many setbacks, the poorer and uneducated villagers are more resilient and happier that their richer and educated counterparts in the city - and that wealth is not defined only by one's material belongings.
This is a poignant (especially during the part where Jinda lost her father), thought-provoking and uplifting book, definitely recommended for anyone who would like a flavour of life in rural South East Asia, and gain a deeper insight into the importance of family and happiness, and the definition of wealth, and that there is hope for the future despite a negative outlook (as reflected by its title Rice Without Rain).
April 3, 2017
I've read this when I was in high school. Not because it was required but because I was a library junk back then. Out of all the Asian literature books I've read back then, this is one of the books that left the strongest impression to me. I can still remember the whole story as well as the name of the male protagonist (his name is Ned). I remembered how I cried when I was reading it. I remembered my disappointment when Ned didn't choose to stay. But I like the ending when the female protagonist's sister gave birth at the same time as the rain they have all been waiting for finally came. :-)
February 27, 2022
I was intrigued with the writing of this author. I not only was captured by the storyline but the visual descriptions allowed for the characters emotions to be expressed within a young lady’s cultural and family history of a rural village that includes a multi-generational impact on each other.. actually my viewpoint doesn’t lift up this novel as it should. It was a quick read for my breaks yet it’s still felt within my soul!
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March 13, 2018
The first book I've read that takes place near where we're living this year, the mountains of Chiang Dao. This book captures the struggle of students in 1976 who are fighting the Thai government for democracy and the rights of farmers who are being extorted by landowners. Jinda is a young woman from Chiang Dao who gets swept up in the student activism that is taking over Bangkok when a few students come to live in her village one summer. Dramatic and full of suspense, I wish there were more historical fiction books by Thai authors translated in English. I want to read more of Minfong Ho.
August 5, 2020
This book tells the story of Jinda and her family, including her father Inthorn, sister Dao, brother Pinit, and her grandmother, who live in a remote, rural, rice-farming village in Thailand.
Inthorn is the leader of the village which is dependent on the seasonal rains to provide a bountiful enough rice harvest for their families to have enough food to sustain them throughout the year. The farmers do not own their land so they are required to pay one-half of their crops to their urban landlords. In years when the rains fail to come, the landlords still require the same payment, thus starvation becomes commonplace among the villagers in dry seasons, with children and the elderly becoming the most prevalent victims.
One summer, students Ned, Sri, and others from Thammasat University in Bangkok arrive in Jinda's village with high ideals and a desire to help the villagers improve their living conditions through various means, mainly by confronting the landlord over the exorbitant rents they must pay.
Jinda's father becomes an unfortunate cog in the wheels of thwarted justice as Jinda, Ned, Sri, and their fellow students work feverishly to save him, even as government officials seek to crush the student protests at Thammasat University (an actual event in Thai history) that may be Inthorn's only hope for freedom.
My daughter passed on this book to me after it was gifted to her by one of her 9th grade teachers who was making room on her classroom bookshelves for more recent titles. Although the writing in this book was fairly basic (~5th grade level), it covers mature themes, such as domestic violence, death, violent government oppression, and graphic description of childbirth.
The author noted in the preface that she chose to write the story from the point of view of the farmers and their families because she believed their story had not yet been told, unlike the story of the students and others working for societal change in the 1970s in Thailand.
Inthorn is the leader of the village which is dependent on the seasonal rains to provide a bountiful enough rice harvest for their families to have enough food to sustain them throughout the year. The farmers do not own their land so they are required to pay one-half of their crops to their urban landlords. In years when the rains fail to come, the landlords still require the same payment, thus starvation becomes commonplace among the villagers in dry seasons, with children and the elderly becoming the most prevalent victims.
One summer, students Ned, Sri, and others from Thammasat University in Bangkok arrive in Jinda's village with high ideals and a desire to help the villagers improve their living conditions through various means, mainly by confronting the landlord over the exorbitant rents they must pay.
Jinda's father becomes an unfortunate cog in the wheels of thwarted justice as Jinda, Ned, Sri, and their fellow students work feverishly to save him, even as government officials seek to crush the student protests at Thammasat University (an actual event in Thai history) that may be Inthorn's only hope for freedom.
My daughter passed on this book to me after it was gifted to her by one of her 9th grade teachers who was making room on her classroom bookshelves for more recent titles. Although the writing in this book was fairly basic (~5th grade level), it covers mature themes, such as domestic violence, death, violent government oppression, and graphic description of childbirth.
The author noted in the preface that she chose to write the story from the point of view of the farmers and their families because she believed their story had not yet been told, unlike the story of the students and others working for societal change in the 1970s in Thailand.
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July 3, 2023so many thoughts i want to share about this book!
- well firstly, i picked up this short book when visitinf chiang mai, thailand and if you know anything about me i love reading books in places that they were set in hehe
-also when picking this book, it was the only one in the southeast asian fiction section that did not have a white man author😭
- i was hesitant at first bc it technically was a YA book but i decided to get anyway esp bc the summary had commented on the communist revolution in thailand and had made a point to discuss those leading the revolt (educated, city, upper class folks) vs those who are more impacted by the issues in thailnd (farmers, rural workers)
- OK so yes it was a little cringey (bc its YA) but i loved the connections and commentary that was subtley discussed throughout the book of the POV of the rural working class and their experiences with land rent vs them being roped in with college studemts trying to make change in their govt
-apparently this is based on real events from the 1950's and being in thailand now i dont see as large disparities as described in the book so maybe the coup worked?
-i think it helped me put in perspective of my time in thailand as often a lot of us se asians refer to thailand as the country that never got colonized and feeling that thus country has immense privlege compared to places we come from
-but as im growing im trying to have more empathy and to not play this game of privlege olympics bc each of us has our own history and our own struggles that we should acknowledge in one another bc if we continue to compare our privleges we are never going to get to a real place of sharing and community while understanding our differences and how they shape us
-ps i am planning on wrapping this book up and giving it to my boss before i leave 🇹🇭
- well firstly, i picked up this short book when visitinf chiang mai, thailand and if you know anything about me i love reading books in places that they were set in hehe
-also when picking this book, it was the only one in the southeast asian fiction section that did not have a white man author😭
- i was hesitant at first bc it technically was a YA book but i decided to get anyway esp bc the summary had commented on the communist revolution in thailand and had made a point to discuss those leading the revolt (educated, city, upper class folks) vs those who are more impacted by the issues in thailnd (farmers, rural workers)
- OK so yes it was a little cringey (bc its YA) but i loved the connections and commentary that was subtley discussed throughout the book of the POV of the rural working class and their experiences with land rent vs them being roped in with college studemts trying to make change in their govt
-apparently this is based on real events from the 1950's and being in thailand now i dont see as large disparities as described in the book so maybe the coup worked?
-i think it helped me put in perspective of my time in thailand as often a lot of us se asians refer to thailand as the country that never got colonized and feeling that thus country has immense privlege compared to places we come from
-but as im growing im trying to have more empathy and to not play this game of privlege olympics bc each of us has our own history and our own struggles that we should acknowledge in one another bc if we continue to compare our privleges we are never going to get to a real place of sharing and community while understanding our differences and how they shape us
-ps i am planning on wrapping this book up and giving it to my boss before i leave 🇹🇭
February 12, 2018
This book was a great surprise. It had passed through a few friends and family after being taken off the shelves at an international school library in Kuala Lampur. It's faded brown cover sat on our shelf unloved for too many months until I was between digital holds from the SF Public Library and decided to give it a try. The book is set in Thailand, 1976, a few years after students helped topple a military dictatorship. Many of the same idealistic university students, teachers and activists headed to the rice fields between school terms to teach and learn with rural farm workers. This was a common strategy for leftists around the world struggling to build authentic solidarity between urban and rural, formally educated and proletarian/peasant.
I was so intrigued by the book I did some reading on the author. Minfong Ho's Asian identity is not easily labelled. She said something close to, "Chinese is the language of my heart, Thai, the language of my hands, and English the language of my head." Her family roots are in China, and she spent years in Burma, Singapore, Thailand and with Cambodian refugees. Later she studied and wrote in the US. She was concerned with Asian stories and fables that glossed over, or completely obscured, the real challenges of rural poverty. As a professor in the 1970s Chiang Mai, she spent 'vacations' working and living in the countryside in rural agricultural villages.
"Rice Without Rain" derives from her time spent in a small village north of Thailand and her own witnessing of the Thammasat Massacre in 1976. It's well told, but then all of sudden beautiful, heartbreaking, and uplifting as the novel closes.
I was so intrigued by the book I did some reading on the author. Minfong Ho's Asian identity is not easily labelled. She said something close to, "Chinese is the language of my heart, Thai, the language of my hands, and English the language of my head." Her family roots are in China, and she spent years in Burma, Singapore, Thailand and with Cambodian refugees. Later she studied and wrote in the US. She was concerned with Asian stories and fables that glossed over, or completely obscured, the real challenges of rural poverty. As a professor in the 1970s Chiang Mai, she spent 'vacations' working and living in the countryside in rural agricultural villages.
"Rice Without Rain" derives from her time spent in a small village north of Thailand and her own witnessing of the Thammasat Massacre in 1976. It's well told, but then all of sudden beautiful, heartbreaking, and uplifting as the novel closes.
May 3, 2019
I don’t think I had read a book set in Thailand before. Not even in all the memoirs from Asia that I love to devour. ‘Rice Without Rain’ was wonderfully interesting, in that sense. Set in a Thailand of unrest and turmoil with rumours of Communist influences, Ho shows a fractured world - from the student agitators who come from Bangkok to the farmers in impoverished villages to try to overcome oppressive taxes. There’s an easy, lyrical style to the way Ho writes and the words kept flying off the pages. In the end, it’s not the story as much as the understanding it gave me to a different world that mattered to me.
April 12, 2023
This book made me thought about a lot of things. It opened my eyes about the conflicts and unstable situations of SEA countries that I never knew before. It made me ponder questions, of what is right and what is wrong. Who's right and who's wrong. It made me question on what could be done and what should not be done. What caused the unstability? Why is this situation still ongoing despite so many years of fighting? Maybe there's something wrong with the opposition party that claimed to be fighting for the people after all? What even is the root of the problems? And at the end of the story I am left with the question of who is to be blame?
June 25, 2020
Heartbreaking story of a country with turbulent government, Thailand. Based on a true event in 1976, the massacre of students during a peaceful protest, the story tells about the drought and poverty that led to the protest. Told through the voice of a teenage girl, daughter of a drought stricken farmer, the shameful policy of owners taking half the crop even during a drought, is explored. An excellent insight for young People, Asians in particular, into historical events and governments. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
October 20, 2019
Author shows how and why so many people in thailand turned to the communist for help.A very moving story similar in many ways to what went on in Vietnam , I , if under similar circumstances , would also have gone the same way. Same as China years earlier
January 19, 2022
This book is really good but for me it had words I couldn’t pronounce 💀 like big words *yikes and I’m in enriched*
The story itself is realistic and has amazing quotes, definitely recommend if you’re into “fiction but not” type stories
The story itself is realistic and has amazing quotes, definitely recommend if you’re into “fiction but not” type stories
February 20, 2025
Excellent story set in Thailand. I found i needed more context and background information. Teachers and parents introducing this book to their children might be well advised to set the stage to enhance the appreciation of the story.
May 14, 2019
This is a great book about Jinda and her family going through poverty. Jinda is a courageous character and also she has great hopes for the future.
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April 18, 2025
Wonderfully written! Hooked on the first page. Makes us think of human sympathy.
May 24, 2011
RICE WITHOUT RAIN
by Minfong Ho
I think that Rice Without Rain was a good book. At first i was not too exited about reading a book about a farmland of rice drying, i did not think there would be much of a story at all for the next 236 pages of the book. I just kept reading noticing the authors craft and techniques along the way.I could just start feeling the environment around me, the heat the wind and the dried parched fields. i don't know about any other reader that might think, this is not how i felt. I'M just a person that can get really into the book if i enjoy it. And i did enjoy it! It is really important for me to enjoy a book in order to get into it and understand the plots and other things that are happening throughout the story. Minfong Ho really did a good job on the book. He found a topic with a story behind it, the topic is not exactly someone would usually choose and write a whole story about. Minfong could really see and write about the parched fields, dry hot sun, the rain starved crop, and the story had no mercy! there is not just a happening miracle to save the starving Oi, or to have a happy family with a mother or a father that survives the prison. things like this happen people die and betray and leave you. now im not saying life is only a bunch of misery but this story... it happens, and in these times or stories there isn't always a happy ever after and i know there was a good ending but there's always just somethings that don't always turn out perfect.
by Minfong Ho
I think that Rice Without Rain was a good book. At first i was not too exited about reading a book about a farmland of rice drying, i did not think there would be much of a story at all for the next 236 pages of the book. I just kept reading noticing the authors craft and techniques along the way.I could just start feeling the environment around me, the heat the wind and the dried parched fields. i don't know about any other reader that might think, this is not how i felt. I'M just a person that can get really into the book if i enjoy it. And i did enjoy it! It is really important for me to enjoy a book in order to get into it and understand the plots and other things that are happening throughout the story. Minfong Ho really did a good job on the book. He found a topic with a story behind it, the topic is not exactly someone would usually choose and write a whole story about. Minfong could really see and write about the parched fields, dry hot sun, the rain starved crop, and the story had no mercy! there is not just a happening miracle to save the starving Oi, or to have a happy family with a mother or a father that survives the prison. things like this happen people die and betray and leave you. now im not saying life is only a bunch of misery but this story... it happens, and in these times or stories there isn't always a happy ever after and i know there was a good ending but there's always just somethings that don't always turn out perfect.
February 5, 2017
Another one of my "Read Around the World Books," RICE WITHOUT RAIN sheds light on the student uprising and consequent massacre at Thammasart University on October 6, 1976. This is firmly in the YA genre, but with a surprising and satisfying and very feminist ending, which is a rare and beautiful thing. Jinda falls in love with a university student who comes to her village to lead farmers in a liberation from their landlords. Her sister Dao looks for hope from the opposite source, aligning herself on the side of the rent collector. Jinda eventually travels to the city to share her father's story of resistance at a peaceful student march, only to be disillusioned and horrified when the march becomes a massacre. What will happen to her love? An enlightening book that lends clarity to modern East Asian history.
February 8, 2016
I liked it.
That's about as much as I can say, really. It's well-written and the main character goes through a lot of character development, but something is holding me back from loving this book. I wasn't 100% satisfied with the ending...I feel like there could have been a little more. The ending was all right, but I guess I was just expecting more.
The chapters are really long, too. Or maybe I've just been reading books with really short chapters and these just seem long by comparison. And I'm not saying that long chapters are a bad thing, I'm just pointing it out.
One more thing: This book looks like it's written for kids in middle school, but there are elements in it that would suggest otherwise.
That's about as much as I can say, really. It's well-written and the main character goes through a lot of character development, but something is holding me back from loving this book. I wasn't 100% satisfied with the ending...I feel like there could have been a little more. The ending was all right, but I guess I was just expecting more.
The chapters are really long, too. Or maybe I've just been reading books with really short chapters and these just seem long by comparison. And I'm not saying that long chapters are a bad thing, I'm just pointing it out.
One more thing: This book looks like it's written for kids in middle school, but there are elements in it that would suggest otherwise.
December 11, 2013
Good book about the struggles facing Thailand's agrarian society. I though Minfong's use of language beautiful. The use of imagery to describe the land and the people really helped to bring the book to life. However, I did find the plot to be less than enthralling and seemed a bit boring at times. I did enjoy the uplifting ending though.
Overall, I think this is a good book for students as an introduction to a perspective that they rarely get. There aren't many children's/YA books about the people living in Thailand and the challenges they face. It's also important for students to be aware of the different struggles that people face across the world.
Overall, I think this is a good book for students as an introduction to a perspective that they rarely get. There aren't many children's/YA books about the people living in Thailand and the challenges they face. It's also important for students to be aware of the different struggles that people face across the world.
April 13, 2016
So far Rice without Rain by Minfong Ho has to be the hardest book I read to date but is definitely is the hardest book to put down I become so absorbed by Jinda's and Ned's contrasting views of the Thai student movement during 1973 that I began to question my feeling towards Thailand military influence on the whole nation as I have very little knowledge or awareness of Thailand student protest in the early 70's.
I rate Rice Without Rain by Minfong Ho ten out of ten for creating such a hidden treasure it felt like to me I was having a personnel history lesson outside of school and I would definitely encourage school libraries to stock Rice Without Rain on their bookshelves.
I rate Rice Without Rain by Minfong Ho ten out of ten for creating such a hidden treasure it felt like to me I was having a personnel history lesson outside of school and I would definitely encourage school libraries to stock Rice Without Rain on their bookshelves.
April 14, 2008
RICE WITHOUT RAIN
Written Cynthia Saravia Bazoberry
The book Rice without Rain is a novel about a girl called Jinda who's family is reaching poverty and they won't have enough rice to eat this year again. Then out of the blue four students from richer Thailand. Jinda falls in love with one of the students, Ned and Ned convinces her father to only give 1/3 of there rice to the collector instead of 1/2. The collector puts Jinda's father in jail and Ned and her try to free him and leave the dictatorship that Thailand was in.
Written Cynthia Saravia Bazoberry
The book Rice without Rain is a novel about a girl called Jinda who's family is reaching poverty and they won't have enough rice to eat this year again. Then out of the blue four students from richer Thailand. Jinda falls in love with one of the students, Ned and Ned convinces her father to only give 1/3 of there rice to the collector instead of 1/2. The collector puts Jinda's father in jail and Ned and her try to free him and leave the dictatorship that Thailand was in.
May 31, 2016
Rice Without Rain is a historical fiction novel by Minfong Ho. This book goes within the depths of the struggle villagers' and civilians go through on a regular basis. The main character Jinda is a young village girl who soon meets a group of college students who seem eager to learn the ways of village life. Little does she know what kind of uproar their presence will bring to her and the rest of the community. This novel is perfect for those who enjoy historical context, adventure, love, and heartbreak.
January 9, 2008
This book is about the drought in Central Thailand.
I really liked this book. I thought it was great because it about a true thing that happened but they made it seem like a story and it was really descriptive. It is really exciting because there are fights about land rights, struggles for land and food and a fight to save their father when he hurt his hand and then has to go to jail for illegally cutting down wood. If they do not free him in time he might die.
I really liked this book. I thought it was great because it about a true thing that happened but they made it seem like a story and it was really descriptive. It is really exciting because there are fights about land rights, struggles for land and food and a fight to save their father when he hurt his hand and then has to go to jail for illegally cutting down wood. If they do not free him in time he might die.
February 4, 2012
This book has a fairly short plotline, but has great contents and can really tell a lot about the lives of farmers, and the rebellion that was fought over to the Thais. Even though the ending might seem a bit obvious, tiny bits of surprise were in this book, and gave some excitement to me every once and a while. You would also get to know a bit more about the life of the author, while she or he had similar experiences within this book.
April 14, 2008
This book was pretty good. I thought that it was very slow at the beginning. It was a historical fiction novel that dealt with issues in Thailand. The issues included things like, the cost for rent, and how Jinda, went to Bangkok to try to free her father. Her father was taken to jail because he cut down a tree. It was not fair and Jinda and Ned knew it.
January 28, 2008
very historical. it's funny that if youre in a village so far away from a city that you don't know whats goin on in the rest of the world. that's another thing that improved in the world, cause when something hapens in our time everyone would know about it but back then no body would.
May 8, 2013
(School)
Rice Without Rain is about the struggle of hunger and for the rights of the farmers in Thailand.
I personally thought it was okay, but I wasn't nuts about it. There's so much tragedy and and suffering and fighting that it's all so sad. But it was worth reading to know what some of the world feels and struggles on some level.
Rice Without Rain is about the struggle of hunger and for the rights of the farmers in Thailand.
I personally thought it was okay, but I wasn't nuts about it. There's so much tragedy and and suffering and fighting that it's all so sad. But it was worth reading to know what some of the world feels and struggles on some level.
November 5, 2016
I'd shied away from Rice Without Rain for a while, but now I see what I was missing out on.
Rice Without Rain was a deeply moving piece of work, done within 200 pages. What I really loved was the insight that I gained when reading this, how life was like in Thailand back then. Rice Without Rain is beautiful, and I would reread it again.
Rice Without Rain was a deeply moving piece of work, done within 200 pages. What I really loved was the insight that I gained when reading this, how life was like in Thailand back then. Rice Without Rain is beautiful, and I would reread it again.
January 10, 2017
I love this book. It tells the story of Thailand student movement in the 70s but in the light way. I first read it more than 16 years ago because it my sister need to read it for her english class. It shows how the world don't always happen the way you want it. I also learn more about Thailand from this book.
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