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Chargement... Tiger Lily of Bangkokpar Owen Jones
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  owencerijones | Aug 7, 2016 |   I was pleasantly surprise to find that there was not a single dull moment from the beginning of the story to the very end. Lily’s story is heartbreaking and it difficult not to feel sympathy and warmth towards a child that had been abused, at such a young age by someone her parents trusted and she called him “uncle” as an honorary title. This horrible man shuttered Lilly’s young dreams and made it difficult for her to find her way out of misery and try to live a normal life. She left the small village in Isaan near the Mekong River and moved to Bangkok where she attended the university as a medical student. Owen Jones did a wonderful job in providing a very compelling and interesting story. Lily is a very likable character and I liked how the author created a dual personality so the reader can understand her anger and need to take revenge as well as the girl who want to live a normal peaceful life. Tiger Lily of Bangkok was a great read for me and I would recommend the book to anyone who loves complicated, exciting, and intriguing stories with a good outcome. (  )1  An-Avid-Reader | Feb 18, 2015 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Tiger Lily of BangkokWho Will Escape a Grizzly Death?Lily was born and raised in her parents' general store in a village in north-eastern Thailand near the Mekong River and the border with Laos. Her early childhood was a happy one although her Chinese parents did not show their emotions much as befitted their age and culture. Still Lily was happy.Happy that is until a man she called uncle, a friend of the family who used to help out in the shop, started abusing her at just eleven years of age.She did not feel that she could tell her family and it took two years before a chance happening in the school playground gave her an idea how to put an end to her torment.The solution was radical, but it worked. The man never bothered her again, but it also had the effect of making all the other villagers wary of her. Lily grew more and more lonely until at eighteen, she was perfectly ready to move the nearly 1,000 km to Bangkok to study medicine, although she knew no-one there and had never left the province before.However, life in the capital was not all roses either as she was short of money to pay for her course and living expenses.The only solution she could think of was to have several 'boyfriends' and she invented different personas for each. It wasn't long before the strain of her lifestyle became too much for her with disastrous consequences for people around her.However, would any of it happened at all if she had not been abused as a child?The good people of Bangkok will never know, but you might.Tiger Lily of Bangkok is the thrilling story of a young woman's quest for revenge. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingOwen Jones est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
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Lily was born in eastern Isaan near the Mekong River, the only daughter of Chinese-Thais who owned a shop in their small village.
Her parents had a close friend that Lily called Uncle who used to smile at her and take her gifts as a small child. However, when she was just eleven years old the nature of the gifts changed and there was always a price to pay for them that Lily hated.
Dare she upset her parents by telling them?
An accident of fate at school gave Lily the means to put an end to the problem once and for all and her parents came to realise what had been going on in their daughter's life.
Soon after the incident, Lily's father died. some said from shame. Lily herself was given compensation which she wanted to use to change her life. Her decision was to go to University in Bangkok.
It was there that she realised that the compensation, which had seemed a fortune in the village, would not be enough to fund her University life in full and she descended into the seamier side of Bangkok life.
A serial killer is taking the life of men in Bangkok and the city is rightly scared. Not only are the men marked in death but a trademark flower is left at the scene of each killing.
The press says this is the most frightening serial killer since the cannibal child killer, Si Ouey Sae Urng of the 1950's.
Fear haunts the city and no-one knows who will die next or how the victims are chosen. The police are baffled and the citizens cower behind closed doors fearful for their lives. (