Alex Kerr

Another Bangkok

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One of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze of concrete and twisting overhead utility wires. Alex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok and is uniquely qualified to write about it. As with his bestselling books on Japan (Lost Japan and Another Kyoto), he revels in the secret, tucked away corners, the great contemporary artists and the sheer wonder of so many aspects of Thai dance and design. While deploring the loss of much of old Bangkok, he is never merely nostalgic for a past but… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-198717-0
EAN: 9780141987170
Produktnummer: 34816665
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm

Über den Autor

Alex Kerr is an American writer and Japanologist whose previous books include Lost Japan, Dogs and Demons and Another Kyoto (with Kathy Arlyn Sokol). He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan. First visiting Bangkok in the 1970s, since 1990 he lives half of each year in Kyoto, the other half in Bangkok.