Home Inn Dewai Road has many cosy guestrooms and suites with standard twin bedroom and ... more
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Advantages: A thought provoking book Disadvantages: NONE
*THE ROADHOME*
*ROSE TREMAIN*
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN-10: 0099478463
ISBN-13: 978-0099478461
What a fantastic read!!!!!!
I must say that I have always found Rose Tremain an excellent writer, and I think that this is her best book yet, quite a change from her more normal historical novel.
The RoadHome is full of her usual wonderful elegant prose and imagery and is both funny and tragic.
It tells the sad and yet optimistic, story of Lev, a 42 year old widower who leaves behind his young daughter, Maya, with her grandmother in Eastern Europe (just where we never do find out) and makes the journey to London in search of a job that would let him send money home to make a better life for them.
Lev is a likeable and hardworking man who quickly fits in to his new surroundings, but ...
Advantages: Convincing, well written, good plot, likeable characters Disadvantages: Ends suspiciously well
experience, but it's much more than that. Lev is, indeed a kind of Everyman, but he's also his own person, not just a sketch of an Eastern European. He's got his own history as well as the History that made his country and his people and, crucially to a lovable as opposed to just admirable novel, he's a likeable person in his own right, a good man essentially, compassionate and grown up, although not immune to an occasional outburst of anger, passion and despair that makes him - makes all of us - mad and bad and lost and stupid.
There is so much in "The RoadHome" I won't even attempt to list it all. It's a wonderful, rich novel, captivating and difficult to put down despite not having what one might call a particularly riveting plot; grown up but not cynical, encompassing grief and love, work and history, examining what makes us fall down ...
Advantages: Very well situated for a sightseeing trip to Bangkok. Disadvantages: None that I can think of.
We stayed for four nights at the 4* Holiday Inn Silom Bangkok in June 2007.
It takes its name from its address on the Silom (Windmill) Road.
The hotel has twin towers - The Crown Tower and The Plaza Tower and between them they have 700 rooms and suites.
There are four lifts serving each tower.
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The hotel is perfectly positioned for a sightseeing trip to this bustling city?..it 's within a five minute walk of Surasak Skytrain Station, a ten minute walk of the nearest Chao Phraya River Pier - to make use of river taxis and buses - and a ten minute walk in the evening takes you to the bustling Patpong night market.
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The entrance road to the hotel is quite understated but once in view of the glass ...
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