num_pages: 206
description: Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction"Painfully bored" with school, 17-year-old Karen Connelly set off for rural Thailand to spend one year as an exchange student. This is her intensely honest account of living in a beautiful but sometimes infuriating culture."I already look forward to reading Touch the Dragon again--and again."--Timothy Findley
language: English
title: Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal
titlecomplete: Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal
genres: Biography, Memoir, Asia, Autobiography, Travel, Canadian Literature, Canada, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 332
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Turnstone Pr