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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.
A writer grappling with his characters
– or is it the other way around? –
in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godard
and Anna Karina.
Followed by 'A tale without a name',
a layered short story plugged into...
Four of these outstanding Thai short stories
are published in English for the first time.
The others appeared first in the Bangkok Post.
All mark new trends in Thai fiction writing
and deserve the widest...
lover
the doll
an old cloth and a tray of mackerels
the last drop of ink
Alongside Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental...
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
A variety of styles and moods by seven leading Thai short story writers of today:
A traffic-wise couple – Sila Komchai
Blood buds – Sila Komchai
The lookers-on – Korn Siriwatthano
A bamboo bridge over rapids – Seksan...
Soldier, pimp or artist?
What is Rart’s real nature?
Is history repeating itself?
By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers,
a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguities
that...
Who killed the old imam, and why?
Your guess is as good as theirs.
The novel every Thai,
everyone concerned with
the situation in Thailand’s deep South,
should read. If only to ponder
on the country's...
When some men are cursed with immortality,
they endeavour to break the curse
and, if successful, turn into sea animals.
A novel of magical realism and verbal magic
set on the fault line of Islam and Buddhism...
An ageing tycoon wants to achieve immortality
by grafting his brain onto a younger body
— until he is challenged by his very clone.
At stake, there is more than the control of his business empire.
A Thai...
Against a background of frenzied land speculation
where all sorts of dirty tricks are par for the course,
who of Abbot Nian and Kharm the Medium
will emerge as the Lord of the Land?
The increasingly
heated...
What happens to common country folk
when they are caught in the jaws
of wayward religion and superstition?
This is what happens, at Khoak Phranang,
the epicentre of rural Thailand in the 1990s.
A short,...
One way out of crippling poverty
is by putting yourself at the service
of the spirits of the land
– folk credulity will do the rest.
Thus is born the Medium,
pitting himself against unethical Buddhist monks...
The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat
goes to study law in London in the early 1920s,
only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter.
In England, France, the US, Japan and China, ...
Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields,
has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives
and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents
that he deserves her hand.
This prophetic, 1953 novel...
Paris after the Second World War:
the Left Bank, Montmartre and Picasso's dove.
Wanlaya is a Thai music student
with challenging ideas and challenged friends,
all engaged in their own ways
in a search...
This vivid chronicle of an upcountry district in the heart of Siam
is told through the rise of Ruen, an aspiring timber trader
who leads a small community of farmers in its fight against nature
and against...