num_pages: 192
description: The Boston-born wife of a government contractor based in Bangkok, Thailand, Claire finds her life turned upside down by the disappearance of Jim Thompson, the famous American entrepreneur she meets a local dinner party, in a story of intrigue, lost innocence, and tragedy set during the early years of the Vietnam War. Reprint.
language: English
title: Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man
titlecomplete: Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Asia, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 268
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Plume