An ordinary story

Name: An ordinary story
Brand: Thaifiction Publishing
SKU: 9782363820082
Price: 3.75 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-2-363-82008-2

de Chart Korbjitti (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Thaifiction Publishing

novembre 2010

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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 helpand the need to look after number one.This not so ordinary story, ...

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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
and the need to look after number one.

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.

By the celebrated author of SEA Write Award winning
The Judgment and Time,
as well as Mad Dogs & Co,
Carrion floating by
and A Baker's Dozen

Auteur

Chart Korbjitti (auteur)

Chart Korbjitti est l'un des romanciers thaïlandais les plus surprenants de sa génération, et parmi les plus influents, ayant ancré depuis les années 1980 le roman thaï dans la modernité grâce à des mises en situation « existentielles » de gens ordinaires, des thèmes universels. Il a publié une demi-douzaine de romans dont deux ont reçu le SEA Write Award : Sonne l'heure (2002) et La Chute de Fak (2003).

Auteur(s) : Chart Korbjitti