Home is in the red light district of the United Kingdom writer _ ganjiang old horse

SINA culture blog essay on the reading "recommended �� when John Burdett walking a crowded bar girl Street, two girls wearing thin and light clothes, excitedly waving hands and yell," John! John! " many of John around--this is cowboy alley, Bangkok a typical red light district, but the bar girls toward its waving hands in a capital letter" J "of John, is their writer friend and confidant. Mr. Burdett. Burdett, a 56-year-old former lawyer, currently a novelist. Has spent nearly seven years and hundreds of bar girl Chat, as his trilogy of inspiration that is about to become a Bangkok hell mysteries set fourth straight flush. The soul fly Bangkok " Bangkok 8" published in 2003, according to Nielsen book data information company, United States in hardback and paperback editions has sold 10 million copies; 19 other countries publishers purchased the novels of copyright. Sequel to the Bangkok tattoo, two years after the released; the soul fly Bangkok ", series III, published in the United States, this year, make it onto the West Coast best seller list. In assessing Burdett's critics are fanatical fans, the same fanaticism skeptic. Salon.com Lara �� Miller describe the Bangkok 8 "is a" relative previous moldy detective story, you can pretty breath of fresh air. "Michiko Kakutani is carefully pointed out that the book" grotesque, glimpse yinpi ", and found that female characters" remote control is not trusted. " Burdett explore Thailand society has strongly attract Western causes: apparently a large number of women out there willing to sell my body shame is not obvious; where brothels, police, Government and community spontaneously as a whole, seek other ways to make it there. The Bangkok 8 " skeptic believes that there is no mistake, Burdett is fantasy books. In the Bangkok 8 on a murder victims were hidden in the automobile's snake bitten to death. But his writing, is sensitive to anthropology. His interpretation of Buddhist shrine in many porn bar entrance is not likely to exist. Buddhist devotion and capitalist greed for people's hearts, the urgency of the eternal and the power and money that collision of collaboration. He brings us into brothels, behind the bar, enter private room upstairs, downstairs into the entire Bangkok "sauna" social unit. When Burdett lead the readers during the day into a red-light district, we believe the bar tastes might really like the "cleaning liquid mixed not fresh beer, cigarettes and cheap perfume. " Burdett is neither a trial of prostitution, and no special exploration of the impact of sociology. His personal opinion. "Prostitution is the oldest of the industry, we want to know, it does not disappear," he said, "conditioned reflex just police make it disappear, but even so, the police also have allowed exceptions prosperity. " Two years ago a survey, the Thailand Ministry of public health statistics 13833 bars, karaoke Carnival, hotel, massage and Caf��, where prostitutes and their clients. Burdett is relatively small and cater to Western tourists attention to this market. Subculture of bar free girls rarely pimps, and often marry her Western customers. As his research, he cares about the bar girls life, have already been to the hut, in the northeastern part of Thailand, Lao language known as isaan region, most of Bangkok bar girl home there. In his book, these women's financial support to their families. "This is the story of National City," Byrd said, "the cowboy alley neon light so bright in this street and you each girl, all from the isaan, originally was a rice farmer. " In his writing and life, Burdett leisurely around the isaan. He can give to their favorite different types of fried insects named: cricket, grasshopper, SilkWorm, Scorpion. He describes his own companions, nits, in the soul fly Bangkok ", is an" extreme country girl. " Burdett from ordinary, at least by the standards of the United Kingdom. London Police's son. Leaving London East suburb of Carpenter and stonemasons. His voice is not a standard of cockney. Class consciousness and the remaining part of the United Kingdom grade social hatred, he no longer consider United Kingdom is his hometown. They also ask your father as a completely ordinary dinner do, enabling them to identify you in their caste system of India. Burdett talk between end-up a big glass of ice beer, this popular in Thailand, but perhaps make a United Kingdom shocking. To become a lawyer in Hong Kong after he made a small fortune. And then give up his career to pursue his childhood dream of novels. He is now allocated time in Bangkok, the red light district and France Southwest Roth River stone Ranch. He often in France in the balcony of his books for final modifications, made him the only oak forest distractions, vineyards and sunflowers fields. It was the rhythm are strong Bangkok streets is hard to imagine the distant place. "Distance to work, forcing the imagination," Byrd said. "It becomes an imaginaryPractice, not an actual research. If you can, this is a good play of mental magic. " Perhaps because his hiking France, Burdett can span different distant cultures. Readers from Bangkok not decent brothels were transported to the Golden splendor of Paris where den square. Fraud Bangkok IPCC Wagner in all three books appear to his way through the red light district brothels help financing. Burdett, through his Narrator provides various color, mulberry difference Primordium �� Gil mention chipp, a detective, his mother was a prostitute whose parent is a United States Vietnam War soldiers. Mulberry difference is an excellent cultural translation, spanning the Cartesian and a Thailand Buddhist spiritual leader. And his mother and her senior customers travelling to Europe. �����������һ��Ǿ������Ѻ�̩�������е���ɫͷ���ͼ���ӣ���ɣ���Ȱ��ա���˵�� Buddhism throughout the novel, the Narrator frequently thinking Buddhism full of mixed culture. Burdett yourself every day to play sitting in meditation for an hour or two. It is hard to imagine how it's scene wide and nuanced, Burdett description of the book embodies the big screen. Recently produced John Rambo "movie" first blood "series part 4, in Thailand, has chosen Bangkok 8" scenes in the movie is a serious attitude, Burdett said. John �� Thomson, executive producer, is currently looking for locations in Bangkok. He said, James �� maiketai cell, the V Word revenge team Director, has been invited to the Guide, will be filmed in 2008. "No matter where you put the camera in Bangkok where is an interesting question," Thompson said. "This is the only city: humidity kill you, heat and smog make your nose bleeding, and you say," I will never leave. " Burdett has completed his Bangkok series of this period. This book will reach Myanmar (select motives are not current events, he said) and paysand�� difference to golden triangle to investigate a suspected offer ice factory of Thai officer. Once the end of the series of Bangkok, Burdett said that he wants to diversify, from police thrillers. But he is very happy to stay in Bangkok. "From a novelist's perspective, this is a gift," he said, "because you have so many different things, there are so many different topics together. Here is a passion. " Ganjiang old horse 2007/10/28 humanity United Kingdom writer Thailand red-light district cowboy alley bar girl Burdett France Zen meditation book review movies

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