Books set in Thailand (15)
Find more books set in Thailand by genre:
11.
The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley EN
IrelandDescription:
The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the number one international bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. After her beloved sister, Star, breaks free of their close relationship, CeCe is bereft and feels totally abandoned. Struggling to cope alone, she decides that she too must try to move on and endeavour to find her own life outside the sibling bubble that has formed her entire world. Wishing to run as far away as she can from the pain of her loss, she decides to head for the farthest corner of the earth - Australia, a country she has always had an irrational fear of visiting, y... continue
12.
The Sad Part was by Prāpdā Yun EN
ThailandDescription:
Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Selected as a 'book to look out for in 2017' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work. Praise for The Sad Part Was 'Ev... continue
13.
The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk EN
Description:
A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Thai author Saneh Sangsuk. The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of the jungle before agrarian and then capitalist life took over his community. Nightly, he entertains the children of his village with tales from his younger years: his long pilgrimage to India, his mother’s dreams of a more stable life through agriculture, his proud huntsman father who resisted those dreams, and his love, who l... continue
14.
Description:
Un niño tailandés de diez años cuida sus vacas al atardecer. Es un niño lisiado, soñador, seguro de su gloria futura. A pesar de tener un brazo tullido, sueña con ser titiritero. Pero su futuro se viene abajo cuando lo ataca una cobra gigante. El niño reúne todas sus fuerzas, y con su único brazo válido mantiene a raya a la serpiente, que se enrosca a él y le comprime el cuerpo. Se pone a buscar ayuda, pero todos en el pueblo huyen espantados. ¿Cuánto podrá resistir?
El lector participa fascinado en el terrible suspense creado por esta búsqueda desesperada, que es también una sobrecogedora me... continue
15.
Welcome Me to the Kingdom : Stories by Mai Nardone EN
Description:
An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, Welcome Me to the Kingdom tells the story of three families striving to control their own destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. We came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We came for Bangkok on the delta. The thin tributaries that laced the provinces found full current at the capital. And in the city, we’d heard, the wealth was wide and deep. In 1980, yo... continue