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Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday.
First serialised in a women's magazine,
yet another masterpiece by the author of
1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment
and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.
Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors,
a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit;
add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses;
shake well; and presto:
rich and taut and sweet...
Bangkok in the late 70s.
A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation.
The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures.
Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish, ...
Trigger a car crash and you are fair game.
A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry.
But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat?
By the...
Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century
by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times
This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s,
is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society,
which makes heroes of 'fuckin' cheats'
and condemns upright citizens...