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Anarchic dive into Phnom Penh's hedonistic underbelly.

If you're intrigued by the untamed and the extreme, "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh" might just be the non-stop rollercoaster read for you. Amit Gilboa has masterfully captured the gritty allure of a city where the lines between right and wrong blur, where expats find themselves in a vortex of the unconventional. It's a raw, eye-opening excursion into a world far removed from the sanitized norms, presented with a mix of dark humor and stark reality that you're unlikely to forget.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9789748303345
Authors: Amit Gilboa
Publisher: Asia Books
Date of Publication: 1998-07-25
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Sociology, History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.29
(rated by 489 readers)

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Phnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city of temples and brothels, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups. But for many, it is simply an anarchic celebration of insanity and indulgence. Whether it is the $2 wooden shack brothels, the marijuana-pizza restaurants, the AK-47 fireworks displays, or the intricate brutality of Cambodian politics, Phnom Penh never ceases to amaze and amuse. For an individual coming from a modern Western society, it is a place where the immoral becomes acceptable and the insane becomes normal. Amid this chaos lives an extraordinary group of foreign residents. Some are adventurers whose passion for life is given free rein in this unrestrained madhouse. Others are misfits who, unable to make it anywhere else, wallow in the decadent and inviting environment. This unparalleled first-hand account provides a fascinating, shocking, disturbing and often hilarious picture of contemporary Phnom Penh and the bizarre collection of expats who make it their home. As they search for love in the brothels or adventure on the firing range, Phnom Penh Journey follows them into the dark heart of guns, girls and ganja.
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Anarchic dive into Phnom Penh's hedonistic underbelly.

If you're intrigued by the untamed and the extreme, "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh" might just be the non-stop rollercoaster read for you. Amit Gilboa has masterfully captured the gritty allure of a city where the lines between right and wrong blur, where expats find themselves in a vortex of the unconventional. It's a raw, eye-opening excursion into a world far removed from the sanitized norms, presented with a mix of dark humor and stark reality that you're unlikely to forget.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.