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Single White Female in Hanoi by [Carolyn Shine]

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‘Beautifully written and very funny, the perfect combination of Hanoi, sexual taboo and gender politics.’ Emily Maguire (Bestselling Australian author)

'Original and quirky, a warm-hearted and very funny tale of noodles, sexual longing and cultural misunderstanding in the new Vietnam' Mark Dapin (Journalist, columnist and author)

Sydney-based musician Carolyn Shine moves to Hanoi virtually on a whim, expecting to find romance and available culture. She’s in for some big surprises.
Funny, warm and engaging, her travel memoir introduces us to a cast of memorable Vietnamese characters as well as her fellow foreigners searching for love and adventure. From teaching English, sub-editing a propaganda news sheet, to forming a blues band, against the backdrop of a world seemingly alive with the promise of romance, this is a beguiling evocation of Hanoi and its people: pungent, earthy and sensual.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carolyn Shine studied Fine Arts and Linguistics at the University of New South Wales and went on to become a musician, songwriter and music educator. As a freelance writer she has been published in various publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald. She moved to Hanoi on a whim in 2002, expecting available culture and romance. Her disappointment propelled her to seek satisfying answers to questions on culture that until then she’d never dared ask.

Length: 333 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Product details

Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1442 KB
Print Length: 333 pages
Publisher: Transit Lounge; 1st ebook edition (3 April 2012)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B007R98DOM
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Word Wise: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Customer Reviews: 12 customer ratings
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #351,531 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #81 in Literary Travel
- #2061 in Biographies of Travellers & Explorers
- #57 in Solo Travel

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marglyn

Expat in Hanoi

Reviewed in the United States on 17 April 2012

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Carolyn is an Australian teacher of music who travels to Hanoi to teach english and hopes to find romance as she is single. Her first impressions are not good as she is shocked at the abject poverty and finds the heat and humidity opressive 38 degress, its also the start of the monsoon season. She has to cope with 6 lanes without traffic lights! Pavements full of sellers sitting by the roadside with no place to walk and in the rain they become fast flowing rivers. She manages to make some friends with the locals as she wishes to live amongst them, others do not take to westerners. It takes her a month to find where the other expats hangout.

There is plenty of humour in this book, you get the feel and taste of Vietnam with all the detail that is written, it is also very revealing about how it feels to live in a communist country still poverty stricken from its legacy of war. For a first book this is well written and draws you in. Really enjoyable and I highly recommend it.

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Alison D D

Looking for adventure

Reviewed in the United States on 26 May 2012

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I really enjoyed this story of life in Hanoi, written by an Australian woman who decides to go there on a whim. She has many interesting stories of her search for jobs, friends both Vietnamese and Ex pats from different countries. She doesn't paint a very pretty picture, more real I would say of the city itself. Did not make me want to move there, but did very much like reading about it and her escapades.

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Homer McConda

I came across this book while researching an upcoming trip ...

Reviewed in the United States on 8 April 2016

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I came across this book while researching an upcoming trip to Hanoi. It was a very enjoyable and interesting read. I believe my experience of visiting Hanoi will be richer for having read this book. Thank you, Ms. Shine.

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Interesting and Bizarre

Reviewed in the United States on 13 April 2016

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This book jerked me from one crisis to the next.I wanted to like it.but it w difficult. Maybe it was just my mood.

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DebS

A brave girl

Reviewed in the United States on 11 January 2013

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You have to admire a woman who takes off on her own to a foreign country where she can't speak the language to live for a year! I enjoyed reading about her experiences and her love/hate relationship with the culture. It was a great outsider's perspective on life in Hanoi.The novel is well written and keeps the reader involved with all the escapades of the main character as she learns how to cope with living in Hanoi.

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Collector T

Single White Female in Hanoi-great read!

Reviewed in the United States on 28 May 2012

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This is such a fun journey to follow. You won't be disappointed reading this adventure of a young Australian woman as she explores the landscape, people, food and culture of Hanoi --while teaching English and earning a living. Surprisingly good fun!

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R. Mack

Astute Observer in Hanoi

Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2012

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I was browsing 'Kindle Singles Adventure' when the search-engine picked up 'single', and thus by chance I found a book that is very much a counterpart of my own on-going Kindle writings, Adventures in Asia series. Gender roles and behavior are prominent as a comparative cultural theme in this book, but the author also observes and reflects on the treatment of poor people and animals, the food culture and the English teaching culture that provides her an opportunity to be a participant-observer. Anyone, like myself, who has been in the position of teaching English abroad as a foreign language will probably enjoy this personal account which is skillfully written and highly enlightening. The book should have broad appeal, as well, as an inside view of the modern culture of Vietnam, and as a fast moving and highly entertaining narrative adventure.

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Tallman

absolutely wonderful

Reviewed in the United States on 12 February 2014

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I loved this book. Carolyn's writing paints such vivid mental pictures. Her brave honesty allowed me to imagine not just what she saw, heard, smelt and tasted, but also what she felt and grappled with intellectually. Such a brilliant author.

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barbara cooper

why i liked single White Female in Hanoi

Reviewed in the United States on 29 March 2013

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I chose this rating because I thourghly enjoyed the story. I have been to Hanoi so could relate to some things

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