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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Auteur(s): Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Narrateur(s): Euan Morton
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 "Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." —Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Important, ambitious, and accomplished." —Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West

A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale Hanté
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I read this thru my book club and only 3members managed to finish this ambitious book. The author uses characters thru time that dwell in and around an old manor home in the city that later is a condo development in the modern city. He asks a lot of his reader to travel thru time connecting the dots and perhaps even characters over time. The plot isn’t linear but more like a Mandela that turns thru time. This is challenging for the reader but rewarding for the ones that stick with it until the layers frame the experience. The result is a fine book - but one for the few and not the many.

Meandering Tale set in Exotic Bangkok

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