"Hello My Big Big Honey!": Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews

Time Magazine
an intimate portrait of Bangkok's red-light district...Does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS? Sometimes...


Far Eastern Economic Review
...a Freudian whirlpool of sexual fantasies and frustration...damaged egos and haunting super-egos...love and cold calculation...cross-cultural mayhem.


London's News of the World Sunday Magazine
...Thai women seem passive, but are capable of fighting back...wives back home are rarely understanding.


The South China Morning Post
...loneliness, despair and delusion...For many men, these dangerous Thai liaisons are no laughing matter. They become obsessed...


Lonely Planet Guide to Thailand
...delivers exactly what the title describes...discloses more about the complex nature of these encounters than 10 academic treatises.


Book Description
Veteran reporter Richard Ehrlich and Dave Walker unfold a tale of love and lust in Bangkok's notorious red-light district. These interviews and correspondence with prostitutes and their patrons draw an intimate and touching portrait amidst the blaring lights and pounding music of Bangkok.


From the Publisher
"HELLO MY BIG BIG HONEY!" is a never-before-told expose of the love lives of Bangkok's bar girls and the foreigners who rent them -- confessed in their own words. A collection of love letters from all over the world, to ladies of the night working in bars on Bangkok's famous Patpong Road. Plus revealing, in-depth interviews with the women who receive them. Why are some men obsessed with Thai prostitutes? Can money buy true love? How does romance blossom amid the harsh streets? Do bar girls marry their customers? "HELLO MY BIG BIG HONEY!" delves beyond the neon, glitz, hype and tragedy of Bangkok's red-lit nights and discovers a world of loneliness, desperation and -- sometimes -- love.


From the Author
Hello My Big Big Honey, Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and their Revealing Interviews, is a work of nonfiction. This TIME reviewed book contains graphic adult language and descriptions of the often romantic relationships that develop between foreign customers and the bar workers in Bangkok's notorious red light bar districts, through real love letters and revealing interviews with the sex workers. Hello My Big Big Honey will give the reader a fresh and unique perspective on Bangkok's "daughter's of the game" and the customers who fall in love with them. Dave Walker


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Richard Ehrlich, a veteran reporter, and Dave Walker, a screenwriter, unfold a true tale of love and lust in Bangkok's notorious red-light district. Their interviews with prostitutes, bar staff and others, and their collection of love letters from foreign men who wrote to Thai bar girls, draws an intimate and touching portrait amidst the blaring lights and pounding music of Bangkok.


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