Amanda at Times with Diamonds

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Smz810fYEnI/AAAAAAAAHCA/G2R_1OjGa4c/s1600-h/amanda+kovattana2.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Smz810fYEnI/AAAAAAAAHCA/G2R_1OjGa4c/s200/amanda+kovattana2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362939257844929138" border="0" //aspan style="font-style: italic;"blockquoteOver ten years ago, Amanda sat on a plane for Bangkok, on the way to her Times grandmother's cremation. She had not been back since childhood and she finds the city of her youth is disappearing.../blockquote/spanAuthor Amanda Kovattana will be talking about her new memoir at Times Bookstore at Pavilion KL, this Friday (31st) 4-6p.m.br /br /According to a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharon.bakar?pwstdfy=78e06ae146256b8f6114de434bb676b4#/event.php?eid=106862123461"the blurb on Horizon's website/a span style="font-style: italic;"Diamonds in My Pocket/span is a her story of growing up:br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"Only child of a beautiful blond English expatriate and the brilliant scion of an upper class Thai family, Amanda Kovattana came of age in the long-vanished world of aristocratic Bangkok. In this exquisitely-rendered memoir, Kovattana produces a chiaroscuro canvas full of sights and sounds and smells, of daily lives textured by honor and tradition, of a family ruptured by deceit and jealousy. Caught in a web of tensions between her mother and father, between East and West, the Old World and the New, the author finally uncovers the long-buried secrets of her own soul./span/blockquoteThe author describes herself a href="http://amandakovattana.blogspot.com/"on her blog/a as : blockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"... a free range writer who offers fresh, organically grown perspectives while cultivating a fruitful living as a professional organizer. She was born in England, raised in Bangkok and lives in the San Francisco Bay area./span/blockquotea onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Smz_UNJBvHI/AAAAAAAAHCI/GuKAZwssOzk/s1600-h/Diamonds+in+My+Pocket.JPG"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Smz_UNJBvHI/AAAAAAAAHCI/GuKAZwssOzk/s200/Diamonds+in+My+Pocket.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362941978881408114" border="0" //aFor the upcoming talk, Amanda shares her thoughts about identity and the tension between the individual and society (two of the underlying themes of span style="font-style: italic;"Diamonds in My Pocket/span). She will talk about the experience of growing up in a third culture—an experience many Malaysians are familiar with. And there will be a Qamp;A session after the talk.br /br /Quite apart from being interested in Amanda the author, I think a href="http://handymanda.blogspot.com/"I desperately need to hire her personal services/a!br /br /span style="font-size:78%;"(Thanks Han for a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharon.bakar?pwstdfy=78e06ae146256b8f6114de434bb676b4#/event.php?eid=106862123461"the invitation to the event/a via span style="font-style: italic;"Facebook./span)/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-6755913323315637978?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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