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This not so ordinary story, whose narrative technique is akin to Albert Camus's The Fall, has an altogether different import: the girl's cancer is Thai society's, caught between tradition and modernity and its resultant dehumanisation.
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Who killed the old imam, and why? The novel every Thai, everyone concerned with the situation in Thailand’s deep South, should read.
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MAD DOGS & CO Chart Korbjitti
Patpong, Pattaya, Phuket and other paradises for a gang of mad dogs and sundry sonzabitches. Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. By the author of The Judgmentand Time, both novels crowned by the SEA Write Award.
CARRION FLOATING BY Chart Korbjitti
Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. Creepy tricks, dry wit. By the author of The Judgment, Mad Dogs & Co, Time and other memorable novels.
THE 20 BEST NOVELS OF THAILAND marcel barang
Everything you wanted to know about modern Thai literature – 20 novels, 18 authors: biographies, plots, book excerpts and book reviews, warts and all.
THE JUDGMENT Chart Korbjitti
All guilty. This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s, is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society. Winner of the 1982 SEA Write Award.
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MAD DOGS & CO Chart Korbjitti
Patpong, Pattaya, Phuket and other paradises for a gang of mad dogs and sundry sonzabitches. Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. By the author of The Judgmentand Time, both novels crowned by the SEA Write Award.
CARRION FLOATING BY Chart Korbjitti
Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. Creepy tricks, dry wit. By the author of The Judgment, Mad Dogs & Co, Time and other memorable novels.
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marcel - 2010-08-18 18:53:19
This novella is on sale as part of the collection of short stories entitled 'An Ordinary Story (and others less so)' published by Howling Books, Chart Korbjitti's imprint.
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