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The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as laos)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,631 ratings — published 2004
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as laos)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,704 ratings — published
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as laos)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,521 ratings — published 2005
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as laos)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,218 ratings — published 2020
Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as laos)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,936 ratings — published 2006
Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5)
by (shelved 43 times as laos)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,739 ratings — published 2008
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as laos)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,835 ratings — published 2008
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as laos)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,355 ratings — published 2007
Run Me to Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as laos)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,706 ratings — published 2020
The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as laos)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,457 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as laos)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,725 ratings — published 1997
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
by (shelved 32 times as laos)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,184 ratings — published 2010
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as laos)
avg rating 3.27 — 181 ratings — published 1999
Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
by (shelved 30 times as laos)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,010 ratings — published 2011
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as laos)
avg rating 3.77 — 150 ratings — published 2005
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #9)
by (shelved 24 times as laos)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,875 ratings — published 2013
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as laos)
avg rating 3.92 — 629 ratings — published 1951
Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as laos)
avg rating 3.83 — 204 ratings — published 2004
Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as laos)
avg rating 3.69 — 311 ratings — published 2003
One Foot in Laos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as laos)
avg rating 3.69 — 213 ratings — published 1999
The Rat Catchers' Olympics (Dr. Siri Paiboun #12)
by (shelved 14 times as laos)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,634 ratings — published 2017
Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10)
by (shelved 14 times as laos)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,255 ratings — published 2015
Don't Eat Me (Dr. Siri Paiboun #13)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,578 ratings — published 2018
A Great Place To Have A War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 3.90 — 800 ratings — published 2017
I Shot the Buddha (Dr. Siri Paiboun #11)
by (shelved 13 times as laos)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,996 ratings — published 2016
Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as laos)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,947 ratings — published 2024
The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #15)
by (shelved 10 times as laos)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,163 ratings — published 2020
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as laos)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,976 ratings — published 2016
A Short History Of Laos: The Land In Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as laos)
avg rating 3.74 — 138 ratings — published 2002
The Second Biggest Nothing (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #14)
by (shelved 9 times as laos)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,249 ratings — published 2019
The Ravens: The Men Who Flew In America's Secret War In Laos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as laos)
avg rating 4.24 — 786 ratings — published 1987
Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as laos)
avg rating 4.00 — 134 ratings — published 1996
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as laos)
avg rating 4.03 — 99 ratings — published 1993
A Luang Prabang Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 3.00 — 19 ratings — published
Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 3.62 — 40 ratings — published 1997
Across the Mekong River (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as laos)
avg rating 4.05 — 661 ratings — published 2004
Lonely Planet Laos (Travel Guide)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 3.92 — 217 ratings — published 1994
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,476 ratings — published
Shooting At The Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as laos)
avg rating 4.11 — 123 ratings — published 1995
The Illiterate Daughter (The Young Guardian Book 1)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.44 — 90 ratings — published
From the Tops of the Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.25 — 781 ratings — published
When the sky turns upside down (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.11 — 19 ratings — published
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.43 — 104,791 ratings — published 2014
Love Began in Laos: The Story of an Extraordinary Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.52 — 42 ratings — published
I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir From Communist Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.28 — 32 ratings — published 2006
A History Of Laos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.70 — 47 ratings — published 1997
Escaping the Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.95 — 104 ratings — published 2010
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 3.85 — 391 ratings — published 2002
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,576 ratings — published 1995
Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as laos)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2009
“A si predstavljaš? sem v prvi zarji še ves zjagan razpredal Romani. Steklenica viskija za pol dolarja in zjutraj nič ne boli glava! Pol dolarja in vsaj za dolar sem ga spil ...
Nekje sredi poti proti jugu pa sem planil čez njo, avtobusno okno se je odprlo le zgrda in komajda sem zvozil, da nisem bruhal po ubožici, vsej nedolžni in zgarani od polnočnih reportaž. Plačal sem vse za nazaj in čez mejo prilezel kot stara kuzla z ohceti; še dobro, da so me tako zdelenaga sploh spustili v nov državo...”
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Nekje sredi poti proti jugu pa sem planil čez njo, avtobusno okno se je odprlo le zgrda in komajda sem zvozil, da nisem bruhal po ubožici, vsej nedolžni in zgarani od polnočnih reportaž. Plačal sem vse za nazaj in čez mejo prilezel kot stara kuzla z ohceti; še dobro, da so me tako zdelenaga sploh spustili v nov državo...”
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“No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. It’s a paradox like civilization’s other great rivers—be it the Nile, Indus, Euphrates, Ganges or China’s Sorrow the Huang He—for without its waters life is a daily struggle for survival; yet with its waters life is a daily bet that natural disasters and diseases will visit someone else’s village, because it’s not if, but when it’s going to happen that’s the relevant question.”
― The Rainy Season
― The Rainy Season
