The vast majority, however, fall into two categories: tourist guidebooks and thin novels written by lascivious expatriate men, whose covers feature good-looking Thai women.
"You know, down at the coast, where there are so many tourists, people tolerate a lot," Mr. Kiraithe said, mentioning the rampant sexual tourism in which both expatriate men and women often hire lovers several decades their junior.
It is common for expatriate men to enter long-term relationships with Cambodian women by seeking the approval of the woman's family and local elders rather than signing paperwork and formally entering into marriage.
He would be out of business but for middle-aged expatriate men with romantic, if outdated, visions of China and some younger men pursuing unlikely macho fantasies among the schoolchildren and grandparents who bicycle along the streets here.
The Swiss photographer Christian Schad, the Hungarian-born painter-photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and the American expatriate Surrealist Man Ray were the medium's chief proponents.
Given the surplus of women, even an ill-favored fellow might pass for a great lover, and if he was a dashing American expatriate like Man Ray, look out.
One of many disarming qualities of Vargas Llosa – the globetrotting expatriate and family man – is that allied to his fierce engagement with the society of which he is a part is a witty, often wry detachment that colours all his work with humour and profound humanity.
During the period 1994 1998, thyroid cancer accounted for 8.1 and 2.1% of all cancers among Kuwaiti women and men, respectively; and 8.7 and 3.3% of all cancers among non-Kuwaiti (expatriate) women and men, respectively.
Ignatieff next experimented with fiction, beginning with Aysa (1991), the story of a Russian expatriate during World War II, and Scar Tissue (1993), a semiautobiographical tale of a man caring for his dying mother.
