Bangkok Wakes to Rain: Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award

by PitchayaSudbanthad (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $6.89

  Places remember us. . .

  A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok.
  A musician plays a private show for ghosts.
  A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street.
  A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face.
  A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer.

  Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.

  For fans of A VISIT FROM THE GOOD SQUAD and CLOUD ATLAS, this is a startling and intimate novel by a lyrical new writer.