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020			_a9780525534778 _q(paperback)
020			_a0525534776 _q(paperback)
040			_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _beng _cUTB _dUTB
084			_aPL4205 PIT 2019
100	1		_aSudbanthad, Pitchaya, _eauthor
245	1	0	_aBangkok wakes to rain : _ba novel / _cPitchaya Sudbanthad
260			_aNy, New York : _bRiverhead Books, _c 2019.
300			_a360 pages ; _c21 cm _billustrations ;
520			_a"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos thathave eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing reading experience from an author at the beginning of what promises to be a thrilling career"-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations
650		0	_aLoss (Psychology)
650		0	_aShort stories, Thai
942			_2lc _cTTC
998			_eGift _s903858 : 017758 c.1 UTB _xDonated by The Royal Thai Embassy
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