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From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Ussiri Dharmachoti or Kajohnrit Ragsa, twelve of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2012.
A young mother crazed by the imminent death of her infant son bitten by a cobra launches into a desperate quest for a snake doctor, an antidote and eventually a way to resurrect her child. This ‘slave-wife’ of a nabob faces adverse elements, wild men and beasts...
From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Phaithoon Thanya or Chatcharin Chaiwat, eleven of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2011.as if it began with the rain – JADET KAMJORNDETLanta, Carrie May...
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 the age of the internet and human incommunicability. With...
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 readership....
A variety of styles and moods by seven leading Thai short story writers of today:A traffic-wise couple – Sila KomchaiBlood buds – Sila KomchaiThe lookers-on – Korn SiriwatthanoA bamboo bridge over rapids – Seksan PrasertkulFriends – Seksan PrasertkulThe muzzle – Suchart...
loverthe dollan old cloth and a tray of mackerelsthe last drop of inkAlongside Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental short fiction, twice winner of the SEA Write Award.
Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times
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 twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment (1982) and Time...
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, the male narrator is caught between the temptation to help ...
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 can be read at many levels....
A 1930s Thai romance with a Japanese setting and a political message by one of the best stylists of Siam...
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 drift into collective madness. The short story on which it was based...
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 in Southern Thailand
Deep into the jungle, a young would-be hunter goes after a barking deer until he is stalked by a tiger – and, through the confrontation, finds himself. This powerful novella, written in the late 1980s after years spent in the jungles of Thailand fighting the government...
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...
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...
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...
This gem of a novel, written during the Second World War, is an amazingly realistic tale of sacrifice in the name of love, at once humorous and tragic: a must-read for both teenagers and grown-ups
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