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Monks, murder, money, miracles and mystifications. Snakes galore and sleazy slitherings intertwined with scandal, suicide and rape in the central Thai village of Khoak Phranang – the first of a celebrated quartet of novels [see The Medium, Khoak Phranang and Lord of...
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 novel on cloning, from a Buddhism-inspired perspective —...
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 man at the turn of the last century (1890-1909). Epidemics,...
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 out of sheer hypocrisy. It earned its author his first SEA...
A crippled boy plays with his puppets and dreams of glory until the female cobra he disturbs by his show rushes at him. The life-and-death struggle that follows has but a predictable end – or has it? This tale has been translated into seven European languages, not to...
Everything you need to know about Thai literature, from its origins to Thai fiction today. Literary criteria used in the selection of the 20 best novels of the last century, from The circus of life to The white shadow: plots – excerpts – critical...
Sex, guilt and retribution. Apparently inspired by the goings-on at a neighbouring palace during the author's childhood, this 1965 novel is set in the expansive residence of a retired nobleman whose carnal excesses set the tone for the whole community. The story...
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.
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 about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai...
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, their work and his fear of poverty and cultural...
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 who also exploit the spiritual needs of Thai...
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, droll and dispiriting interlude before the final confrontation...
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 competition between the main protagonists of Snakes and The...
Little people, simple lives, modest dreams, traditional beliefs, petty fights, tragic accidents, and the dictates of the authorities: how fishermen alienate themselves from nature and lose their moorings is told in a patchwork, poetic narrative of rare beauty. A 1980s...
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 for the true values of life. The meaning of art, the birth of music,...
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