![]() ![]() Sudbanthad draws a subtle but achingly lovely account of their courtship, born of the hopeful spirit of the protests-then pivots to a shocking conclusion. In one, a young Thai man named Siripohng, who has come to the city to attend university, meets a woman named Nee during the massive student demonstrations in 1973. ![]() ![]() Many are stories of loss and of survival. But as those seemingly unconnected stories accumulate, so do the threads that join them. In its early chapters, the book reads like a collection of short stories linked only by their relationship to Bangkok: A nameless woman walks through its bustling streets in the present an American doctor more than 100 years ago struggles to decipher its overwhelmingly foreign culture a Thai photographer living in Los Angeles in the 1970s visits his ailing father in London a woman running a Thai restaurant in Japan finds herself threatened by Thailand’s politics. ![]() In his debut novel, a writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ![]()
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