Hello and thank you in advance!
So when I travel to other countries I like to read literature from the area that was influential or highly regarded.
For example, when I visited Prague I reread all of Kafka’s stories, in the Czech Republic I reread Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being, and when visiting Germany I read Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil.
I’m fond, while still critical, of Alan Watts, Huston Smith, and Aldous Huxley when they discuss religions (Buddhism & Taoism)
If anyone has any recommendations of books that would be somewhere along these lines that would be awesome! I read a lot of philosophy, fiction, and classic narratives
I’m headed to Thailand in a little over a week
by jakerysbakery
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All Thirteen is a young readers book about the boys soccer team trapped in the mountain cave. Even knowing they survived, it’s a harrowing and emotional read. I highly recommend it over other books on the subject, as it was written by a writer, who while she lives in the US now, grew up there. Her insiderness and understanding of the Thai culture is crucial to conveying how the mainly Buddhist population reacts to what is happening and is conveyed in the story.
Don’t let the fact that it’s written for young readers dissuade you, it’s incredibly well done and won multiple awards. It’s also heavily illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams that goes far to explain the complexity of the geography and the complications of the rescue. It will dissuade you from entering those cave no matter what season it is and how it’s unlikely that it could happen again to freakishly.
I’m not too familiar with any Thai authors, but one worth reading for its setting might be “The Beach” by Alex Garland.